Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to produce an update to the 2010 Drug Strategy, and if so, what is the timetable.

The Government plans to refresh our approach and build on the balanced 2010 Drug Strategy ‘Reducing demand, restricting supply, building recovery: supporting people to live a drug-free life’ in line with the manifesto commitments including to tackle drugs as a key driver of crime; intervene early to prevent troubled young people being drawn into crime; and review how best to support those suffering from long term drug dependency back into work.

There are promising signs our approach is working - with a downward trend in drug use over the last decade and more people recovering from their dependency now than in 2009/10.

A date for the publication of the refreshed approach is yet to be confirmed.