Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the accessibility of (a) physical and (b) mental healthcare for nitrous oxide users.

No specific assessment has been made.

The Independent Review of Drugs led by Dame Carol Black highlighted the challenges people using drugs experience in accessing mental and physical health treatment and made a number of recommendations to improve this. The Government’s 10-year drug strategy is the formal, substantive response to the Independent Review of Drugs and accepts all its main recommendations, including the recommendations to improve the provision of high-quality mental and physical healthcare treatment for people with substance misuse conditions.