Drugs Policy

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Moon. I congratulate the hon. Member for I...

My hon. Friend makes a powerful point about the effectiveness of safe drug consumption rooms—a cr...

It is really important that policy be evidence-based. With all due respect to the hon. Member for...

Order. There is a Division in the House. I shall suspend the sitting for 15 minutes if there is o...

Before we were summoned to vote we were talking about drug consumption rooms. If it is order, Mrs...

It was called “Good Cop, Bad War”.

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right; I apologise. The author said that, for all the users and ...

As to those statistics, the fact that the north-east has a far higher rate of death from drug mis...

I am not an expert, but it seems there is a correlation between areas of deprivation and areas wi...

I have seen a slide that shows the areas of greatest deprivation in the United Kingdom, and if a ...

Absolutely—I thank the hon. Gentleman for that clarification. In conclusion, I implore the Minist...

Order. I now call Jim Shannon, but seven Members still wish to speak before I call the Front-Benc...

I will adhere to your guidelines, Mrs Moon. I thank the hon. Member for Inverclyde (Ronnie Cowan)...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Inverclyde (Ronnie Cowan) on securing this debate, and I am sy...

I am keen to make sure that everyone gets a chance to speak. I suggest that people have a self-im...

I will be as brief as possible, Mrs Moon. I congratulate the hon. Member for Inverclyde (Ronnie C...

It is counting up.

It is counting up. Have I really had all that time? I cannot quite believe how long I have been s...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Inverclyde (Ronnie Cowan) on securing the debate. I recently w...

Last year in Scotland there were 934 drug-related deaths. Of those, 137 were in Lothian, which co...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Inverclyde (Ronnie Cowan) on securing the debate. The UK does ...

Thank you for calling me to speak, Mrs Moon; I did not think that I would be called, because earl...

I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Inverclyde (Ronnie Cowan) for introducing this deb...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Edward—although I thought you were Mrs Moo...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Edward. As I have previously stated on the...

On reducing drug dependency, is the Minister aware that generic buprenorphine is no longer availa...

I will of course look into that, and I will ask a Health Minister to write to my hon. Friend.

Yet those substances have been replaced by others, which are possibly more damaging, such as Spic...

Interestingly, the hon. Gentleman raised the issue of decriminalisation, and I again note that no...

The Minister is setting out the case for why there is an obstacle to change. In Durham, for examp...

One or two police and crime commissioners may say that—I know, because they write to me regularly...

Will the Minister give way?

I will not, as I am conscious of time. People wander into drug consumption rooms, having bought t...

The Government say they cannot condone that, but what lessons are they taking from the view of th...

Interestingly, the view of the International Narcotics Control Board is very cautious. It says th...

I have one minute left, so I am afraid I will have to refuse more interventions.

We are hel...

I sincerely thank everyone who has taken part in this afternoon’s debate. I mentioned that I had ...