Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of prosecutions for psychoactive substances dealing.

The number of prosecutions for offences relating to supply of psychoactive substances for the last 5 years are published and can be found in the ‘Experimental statistics: Principal offence proceedings and outcomes by Home Office offence code data tool’ at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2017.

The relevant offences can be found by searching the ‘Detailed offence’ filter for psychoactive substances.

Home Office are responsible for policy relating to the Psychoactive Substances Act.