Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects to being forward legislation to ban the sale of so-called legal highs; and if she will make a statement.

The Government introduced the Psychoactive Substances Bill in the House of Lords on 28 May. The Bill will make it a criminal offence to produce, supply, offer to supply, possess with intent to supply, import and export psychoactive substances. The blanket ban will give police and other law enforcement agencies greater powers to tackle the reckless trade in psychoactive substances.