Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policy on long-term methadone prescribing for opiate addicts of the findings of the Second Report of the Recovery Committee of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.
Public Health England, on behalf of the United Kingdom Government and the devolved administrations, has convened an expert group with responsibility for updating the UK guidelines for the Clinical Management of Drug Misuse and Dependence.
In updating the clinical guidelines the Expert Group will be looking at all the available evidence, including reports from the Recovery Committee of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.