Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many drug-related (a) convictions and (b) arrests have been made in South Thanet constituency in each year since 2010.

(a) Data on convictions are the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice. They have informed us they do not hold information on the location of offences at parliamentary constituency level that led to convictions at court centrally.

(b) The Home Office does not hold the requested information on arrests centrally.

The Home Office collect and publish data on the number of arrests for drug offences broken down by police force area only, and cannot separately identify those arrests that took place in the South Thanet constituency.

The number of arrests for drug offences, by police force area, can be found in the statistical publication ‘Police Powers and Procedures’: www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2016