Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2014 to Question 213652, what progress her Department has made on developing proposals for a blanket ban on the sale of new psychoactive substances.

Pursuant to the government response to the new psychoactive substances review expert panel’s report, the Government is developing new legislation for a general ban on sales of new psychoactive substances similar to the approach
adopted in Ireland in 2010, with a view to introducing legislation at the earliest opportunity, notwithstanding the lack of appropriate legislative vehicle in this Parliament. As part of this work, the Home Office is engaging with other relevant government departments, the Devolved Administrations and key partners.