Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment has she made of the trends of the number of spiking-related incidents in Wales in the last 12 months.
The term spiking relates to crimes committed whereby the victim unknowingly ingests some type of drug or alcohol, generally through an injection or through having their drink or food tampered with.
There are a number of crimes which police can create in these circumstances depending on the severity of the attack and the suspected intention of the perpetrator.
Using these police recorded crime data from the four Welsh forces, the incidence of spiking related crimes has fallen during 2022 when compared to 2021. This is in line with a general fall in spiking related crimes across both England and Wales Police forces.