Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will increase funding for substance misuse services.

The cross-Government drugs strategy, ‘From harm to hope: A 10-year drugs plan to cut crime and save lives’ is investing an additional £900 million over the next three years. This includes £780 million for the delivery of treatment and recovery services. This is addition to £148 million allocated for measures to reduce crime, including £80 million for drug treatment services in England in 2021/22 and funding for local authority drug and alcohol services through the annual Public Health Grant.