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Written question asked by David Davis (Conservative) on Monday, 30 January 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 1 February 2006. It was answered by Charles Clarke (Labour) on Thursday, 4 May 2006 on behalf of the Home Office.


Drug Users (Illegal Income)

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the average annual illegal income of arrested (a) heroin and (b) crack users.
Answer

We do not have the information requested.However some information on illegal income among arrested drug users in a sample of 16 custody suites is provided in research published by the Home Office in 2004 from the New English and Welsh Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Programme (NEW ADAM). The report of the survey is available on the Home Office website (http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs04/rdsolr1904.pdf)


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
445 c1843W;445 c1843W; 47717
Session
2005-06
Subjects
Drugs Misuse
Link
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