Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 May 2019 to Question 250763 on Opiates: Prescriptions, if he will make it his policy to include direct hyperlinks to reports or materials referenced in written answers to hon. Members.

Further to the answer to Question 250763, the Care Quality Commission’s controlled drugs annual reports are available at the following links:

‘The safer management of controlled drugs: Annual update 2017’ (published July 2018).

https://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/20180718_controlleddrugs2017_report.pdf

‘The safer management of controlled drugs: Annual update 2016’ (published July 2017).

https://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/20170718_controlleddrugs2016_report.pdf

‘The safer management of controlled drugs: Annual report 2015’ (published July 2016).

https://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/20160714_controlleddrugs2015_report.pdf

‘The safer management of controlled drugs: Annual report 2014’ (published July 2015).

https://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/20150716_safer_management_controlled_drugs_annual_report_2014.pdf

‘The safer management of controlled drugs: Annual report 2013’ (published August 2014).

https://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/20140811%20CQC%20Controlled%20drugs%20annual%20report%202013%20final.pdf