Found: 1 Cross -Party Group on Medicinal Cannabis Wednesday 27th March 2024 at 6pm Minute Present
Asked by: Andrew Rosindell (Conservative - Romford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of medicinal cannabis treatments provided by the NHS; and whether she has plans to increase the number of treatments available.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson
Licensed cannabis-based medicines are available and funded on the National Health Service, where the safety, quality and clinical and cost effectiveness has been assessed and approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
The Government continues to encourage manufacturers to develop new treatments and invest in research and clinical trials, and offers scientific and research advice from the MHRA and the National Institute for Health and Care Research.
Sep. 17 2009
Source Page: Letter dated 17/09/2009 from Lord Bach to Andrew Pelling MP regarding mandatory drugs testing. Inc a table. 46 p.Found: randomand(b)non-randomtestswereperformedinsuchprisonsineachsuchyear;howmanysuchtestswerepositivefor(i)cannabis
Sep. 05 2024
Source Page: Projects considered "Novel and/or Contentious" by South of Scotland Enterprise: FOI releaseFound: is:Number of referrals: 1Details of applicant: Hilltop Leaf Limited (Hilltop) is a private medicinal cannabis
Asked by: Damien Moore (Conservative - Southport)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle (a) antisocial behaviour and (b) other (i) dangerous and (ii) illicit acts caused by illegal drug cultivation.
Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary
Drugs devastate lives, ruin families and damage communities. The Government's ten-year Drugs Strategy demonstrates our commitment to cut off the supply of drugs, reduce their recreational use and make the UK a significantly harder place for organised crime groups to operate in. Through our end-to-end plan to tackle drug supply, we are tackling the supply of drugs at every level from production overseas to cultivation in the UK. Our approach recognises that the organised criminals behind drug cultivation are often involved in a range of wider offences including firearms, money laundering, slavery and human trafficking.
Working with the National Crime Agency, the Regional Organised Crime Unit network and a range of agency partners, police in England and Wales coordinated Operation Mille - the most significant operation of its kind aimed at disrupting organised crime groups by dismantling large-scale cannabis farms – a key source of illicit income for organised crime gangs. Throughout June of 2023, police executed over 1,000 search warrants, arresting hundreds of individuals and seized 20 firearms, over £635,000 in cash and over 180,000 cannabis plants worth around £130 million. Of those arrested, more than 450 were later charged with a range of offences. The Home Office provided police with £1.5m funding in 2023/24 to support Operation Mille.
Last year the Government launched the Anti-social Behaviour Action Plan ensuring the police, local authorities and other relevant agencies have the tools and powers they need to tackle anti-social behaviour. Under the Plan, which is backed by £160m of funding, we are taking a zero-tolerance approach to all forms of anti-social behaviour, including by toughening up the police response to drugs, expanding testing on arrest and banning nitrous oxide.
Mentions:
1: Mundell, Oliver (Con - Dumfriesshire) well-advanced plans to move into a new brand of horticulture, with a large facility for growing medicinal cannabis - Speech Link
2: Carlaw, Jackson (Con - Eastwood) Would Mr Mundell like to declare any personal interest in the cannabis factory in Langholm? - Speech Link
3: Fairlie, Jim (SNP - Perthshire South and Kinross-shire) Again, I highlight that it is called the muckle toon and that cannabis is grown there—for me, that is - Speech Link
4: Fairlie, Jim (SNP - Perthshire South and Kinross-shire) policies exist for consideration of new brown tourist-destination signage—if we want to talk about cannabis - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: David Mundell (Con - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) Lady will be aware that it is some considerable time since cannabis was legalised for medicinal use, - Speech Link
2: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) I am sitting next to another campaigner on medicinal cannabis use, my hon. - Speech Link
Apr. 18 2024
Source Page: FOI responses published by MOD: week commencing 15 April 2024Found: Please provide the data as per Q1 for incidents of possession of illegal cannabis specifically.
Dec. 23 2010
Source Page: Levels of self-report offending and drug use among offenders: findings from the Criminality Surveys. 77 p.Found: Although cannabis was most common − used by 64 per cent; just under a half (47%) reported using heroin
May. 23 2024
Source Page: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency GPC spending over £500: 2021 - 2022Found: HEIDELBERG 1,412.62 Conferences and events Registration for one person to attend the 1st Annual GMP for Cannabis