Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 14 February (HL13376), how many applications for licences to cultivate high THC cannabis for (1) research and (2) the extraction of cannabinoids they have received since 1 January 2016.

Since 2016 we have received and granted 7 High THC cannabis cultivation licences for research and received and granted 30 High THC cannabis cultivation licences for the extraction of cannabiniods.

Due to our obligations under the Data Protection Act we do not disclose the names of applicants.