Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the importance of understanding offender motivation as part of the Government's strategy to tackle spiking.

The Home Office has recently completed the tender for a piece of academic research into the motivations of perpetrators who commit spiking offences. This project will help to fill a gap in research that was identified by a recent literature review on the subject and will have practical implications by helping to inform Home Office policy and practice going forward.