Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many addicts have received pharmaceutical heroin from the public purse in (a) England and Wales, (b) Scotland and (c) Northern Ireland in each year since 2000.

The National Drug Treatment Monitoring System collects information on structured treatment for drug and/or alcohol users in England, but does not collect data on which drugs are used in opioid substitution treatment.

As health is a devolved matter we cannot answer for the devolved administrations.