Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department expects to complete its consultation with the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs on a blanket ban on new psychoactive substances or so-called legal highs.

On 30 October the Government published its response to the new psychoactive substances review expert panel’s report. We have committed to look at the feasibility of a general prohibition on the distribution of non-controlled new
psychoactive substances, through testing and developing of legislative proposals, in the UK context. This work has begun and we will set out further detail on these proposals in due course.

Our letter of 30 October to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs committed us to keeping the Council updated as we develop this approach