Cannabis: Prosecutions

(asked on 11th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were charged with possession of cannabis in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Nick Hurd Portrait
Nick Hurd
This question was answered on 19th March 2019

The Home Office routinely publishes information on charges and other resolutions, such as cannabis warnings, of crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales. Offences involving the production and distribution of cannabis are subsumed within the general category of “Trafficking in controlled drugs” and data on the number of such offences that have resulted in a charge or summons between 2010 and 2018 are available in the Crime Outcomes open data tables at
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables .

The same tables provide data on the number of possession of cannabis offences that have resulted in a charge or summons.

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