Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK-based websites have been closed down by (a) a law enforcement agency and (b) an internet service provider for (i) selling and (ii) marketing drugs controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 in each of the last five years.

Drugs devastate lives, ruin families and damage communities. As part of our 10-year Drugs Strategy, the Government is committed to driving down drugs supply in the UK, including through tough law enforcement against the sale of drugs online.

Law enforcement agencies work routinely with internet service providers to shut down UK-based websites found to be selling drugs controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, however, data on the number of websites closed down is not collected.