Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many times Hampshire Police has confiscated legal highs from children aged under 18 in (a) Basingstoke, (b) Andover and (c) Hampshire in each of the last three years.

The Home Office does not hold the information requested centrally.

On 28 May, we introduced the Psychoactive Substances Bill in the House of Lords to create a blanket ban on the supply of psychoactive substances.

The Bill will ban the sale, supply, production and distribution of psychoactive substances for human consumption and give police and local authorities greater powers to tackle this reckless trade.