Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will undertake a review of the designation of specified chemicals under Schedule 1A of the Poisons Act 1972 in relation to the use of reportable substances in incidence of attacks containing corrosive substances.

We keep Schedule 1A of the Poisons Act 1972 under continual review. We have moved sulphuric acid above a concentration of 15% from being a reportable to a regulated substance. We have no current plans to regulate any of the other corrosive substances which are reportable substances within Schedule 1A of the Poisons Act 1972.