Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 on levels of use of legal highs.

On 14 July the Home Office published The Psychoactive Substances Act Review Framework which set out the Government’s plans to measure as far as possible any change in activity before and after the implementation of the Psychoactive Substances Act.

As part of this work, the Government is monitoring use of psychoactive substances through the Crime Survey for England and Wales. The forthcoming publication (27 July) Drugs misuse: findings from the 2016/17 Crime Survey for England and Wales will provide the latest data on use of psychoactive substances in England and Wales.