Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of commissioning a comprehensive independent review of the Government's approach to drugs policy.

The evaluation of the 2010 Drug Strategy was undertaken to fulfil the National Audit Office’s recommendations that the Government should develop an evaluation framework to assess the effectiveness and value of money of activities aimed at tackling the misuse of drugs under the 2010 Drug Strategy. Building on the findings from the 2010 Drug Strategy Evaluation, we published the 2017 Drug Strategy which takes a smarter, coordinated approach to tackling the complexity and pervasiveness of substance misuse at a national, local and individual level.
We are monitoring the progress of the Strategy, building on existing datasets to reflect our increased ambition to reduce drug misuse and improve rates of recovery, and are reviewing the impact of the strategy through the Home Secretary chaired Drug Strategy Board.