Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to respond to the report, entitled Reducing opioid-related deaths in UK, published on 12 December 2016 by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.

The Government has now responded to the Advisory Committee on the Misuse of Drugs on the recommendations contained in its report ‘Reducing opioid-related deaths in the United Kingdom’, and will publish the response on the Gov.UK website shortly.