Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the total cost to the NHS of illegal drug use in 2018-19.

Information relating to the number of illicit drug users, the economic and social costs of illicit drugs and source countries for drug production is provided in the Dame Carol Black Independent Review of Drugs evidence pack on pages 17, 30, 33 and 41, published on 27 February 2020.