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Written question asked by Lord Mendoza (Conservative) on Wednesday, 10 September 2025, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 24 September 2025. It was answered by Baroness Merron (Labour) on Wednesday, 17 September 2025 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.

Naloxone: Police and Paramedical staff

Question

To ask His Majesty's Government how many times naloxone has been administered by (1) police officers, and (2) paramedics, since June 2019.

Answer

The Home Office publishes data on the carriage of naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote, by police officers and police staff. The data cannot be broken down into how many times naloxone has been administered by police officers.

There have been 1,232 administrations of naloxone in the United Kingdom by the police from June 2019 to 30 December 2024. The following table shows the breakdown of these administrations:

England and Wales

554 administrations

Scotland

630 administrations

Northern Ireland

46 administrations

British Transport Police

2 administrations

The Department is planning to publish counts of ambulance call-outs where naloxone was administered in the coming weeks. The figures reported will be analysis of data collected by the Department for surveillance purposes rather than official national statistics and it will cover from January 2022 as it does not hold complete data from England from before then.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
HL10415
Session
2024-26
Subjects
Police Paramedical staff Naloxone
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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