Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether changes to current UK legislation are needed to allow devolved Governments to introduce harm-reducing measures such as safe-injecting facilities in areas with a high concentration of injecting drug use.

The Government is clear that reducing the harms caused by drugs needs to be part of a balanced approach.

The use of prescribed diamorphine is distinct from drug consumption rooms, in which drug users inject illicitly obtained drugs under supervision. A range of offences are likely to be committed in the operation of drug consumption rooms. There are no plans to amend legislation to permit the use of drug consumption rooms.