Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of fentanyl abuse have been recorded in the last five years.

Information on the number of cases of fentanyl abuse is not collected centrally. The Government closely monitors risk around the misuse of fentanyl. In 2018, Public Health England produced guidance on incident planning for fentanyl or other potent opioids arriving into the illicit drug market. The guidance is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fentanyl-preparing-for-a-future-threat