Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will review the licence provisions to enable people to grow hemp for personal (a) food and (b) clothing use.
There are currently no plans to review the policy which gives rise to the licensing regime for cannabis cultivation.
The long-standing ‘industrial hemp’ licensing regime exists to enable growers- large or small- to cultivate low THC varieties of cannabis for use of the seed or fibre in clothing or culinary applications. Cultivation solely for ‘personal use’ would not be permitted within this policy.