Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to implement the advice from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs on reducing barriers to research on controlled substances.

The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) published its report titled: Considerations of barriers to research Part 1: Synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists (SCRA) on 30th July 2021. This report can be found here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1008195/Barriers_to_research_using_SCRAs_-_Report.pdf

The Government will respond to the recommendations in due course. The ACMD is progressing a further stage of its consideration of Barriers to Research and the Government welcomes their attention to this important area of drug policy.