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Publisher
Clause 15, discussed with amendments, Government amendments and Government new clause 13 (Testing of persons outside of police detention for presence of controlled drugs), agreed to as amended. Clause 16 agreed to as amended. Clause 17 agreed to. Clause 18 agreed to as amended. Clause 19 agreed to. Clause 20 and Schedule 3 under consideration when the Committee adjourned.
Clause 15, discussed with amendments, Government amendments and Government new clause 13 (Testing of persons outside of police detention for presence of controlled drugs), agreed to as amended. Clause 16 agreed to as amended. Clause 17 agreed to. Clause 18 agreed to as amended. Clause 19 agreed to. Clause 20...
Lead member
Chris Philp
Answering member
Jess Phillips; Alex Norris
Department
Home Office
Type
Debates on bills; Public Bill Committee proceedings
Committee
Criminal Justice Bill Committee
Legislative stage
Committee stage
Procedure
New clauses
Legislation
Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984; Drugs Act 2005; Human Rights Act 1998; Police Act 1996; Theft Act 1968; Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24
Subjects
Disclosure of information; Codes of practice; Crime prevention; Crimes of violence; Human rights; Gambling; Domestic abuse; Drugs; Internet; Facilities; Knives; Powers of entry; Police; Powers; Police custody; Misuse; Mental health; Right of search; Testing; Theft; Seized articles
Date
16 January 2024
House
House of Commons
A debate has been scheduled for 18 May on access to psilocybin treatments. The subject for the debate has been chosen by the Backbench Business Committee, and the debate will be opened by Charlotte Nichols MP, Crispin Blunt MP and Ronnie Cowan MP.
A debate has been scheduled for 18 May on access to psilocybin treatments. The subject for the debate has been chosen by the Backbench Business Committee, and the debate will be opened by Charlotte Nichols MP, Crispin Blunt MP and Ronnie Cowan MP.
By
Elizabeth Rough; Katherine Garratt; Nikki Sutherland
Type
Commons Debate packs
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005; Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001; Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2005
Subjects
Access; Licensing; Health hazards; Drugs; Medical treatments; Misuse; Mental health; Psychiatry; Research; Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs; Psilocybin
Date
18 May 2023
Reference
CDP-2023-0108
Type
Command papers
Author
Home Office
Laid on
15 September 2010
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005
Subjects
Abuse; Crime; Courts; Drugs; Police; Powers; Testing; Home Affairs Committee
Date
15 September 2010
Reference
Cm 7935
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the effect on the size of the prison population of the implementation of the provisions of the Drugs Act 2005.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the effect on the size of the prison population of the implementation of the provisions of the Drugs Act 2005.
Asked by
Paul Flynn
(Labour)
Answered by
Lord Herbert of South Downs
(Conservative)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
3 September 2010
For answer on
6 September 2010
Answered on
7 September 2010
[holding answer 6 September 2010]: Between 2005 and 2008 the number of immediate custodial sentences under the Drugs Act 2005 was 12, imposed on offenders who failed to comply with an initial or follow up assessment for specified Class A drug misuse. We have made no further estimate of the impact on the size of the prison population, other than the impact assessment that accompanied the Bill. The Government will shortly lay before Parliament a memorandum providing a post-legislative assessment of the Drugs Act 2005.
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005
Subjects
Crime; Drugs; Sentencing
Date
7 September 2010
Reference
13083; 515 c389W
House
House of Commons
The Drugs Act 2005 introduced a series of provisions. The Home Office published research in 2007 that identified the positive effect of the Act in improving the grip that the Government exert on drug-using offenders, through the drug interventions programme, by getting larger numbers of drug users to enter drug treatment. Following our clarification in the Act of the law on magic mushrooms, the British crime survey 2006-07 showed a decrease in use in the past year across all age ranges, with a significant decrease among 16 to 24-year-olds, from 3 to 1.8 per cent.
The Drugs Act 2005 introduced a series of provisions. The Home Office published research in 2007 that identified the positive effect of the Act in improving the grip that the Government exert on drug-using offenders, through the drug interventions programme, by getting larger numbers of drug users to enter drug treatment. Following our clarification in the Act of the law on magic mushrooms, the British crime survey 2006-07 showed a decrease in use in the past year across all age ranges, with a significant decrease among 16 to 24-year-olds, from 3 to 1.8 per cent.
Answered by
Lord Coaker
(Labour)
Asked by
Paul Flynn
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Oral answers to questions
What assessment she has made of the effects of the Drugs Act 2005.
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005
Subjects
Crime; Drugs; Misuse; Mushrooms; Rehabilitation; Hallucinogens
Date
9 June 2008
Reference
477 c9
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Will my hon. Friend join me in congratulating Wakefield's police, who this year alone have shut down not one but eight cannabis factories in residential properties in Pinderfields road, Wesley street and on Bradford road, just a few doors down from where I live? Does he agree that we need to do more to shut down hydroponics shops that have sprung up in all sorts of places and which provide the seeds and the hardware kit that allow organised gangs of criminals to come in, use people who have been trafficked, and put the plague of cannabis on to our streets?
Will my hon. Friend join me in congratulating Wakefield's police, who this year alone have shut down not one but eight cannabis factories in residential properties in Pinderfields road, Wesley street and on Bradford road, just a few doors down from where I live? Does he agree that we need to do more to shut down hydroponics shops that have sprung up in all sorts of places and which provide the seeds and the hardware kit that allow organised gangs of criminals to come in, use people who have been trafficked, and put the plague of cannabis on to our streets?
Asked by
Mary Creagh
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
9 June 2008
First, it would be remiss of me not to welcome my hon. Friend back to the House from her leave. We all welcome her back.
In similar vein to the answer that I gave to the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Sir Nicholas Winterton), my hon. Friend is right to point out the importance of taking action against cannabis factories and cannabis farms. As I said, the reclassification of cannabis will make a huge difference. In the same announcement in which my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary announced reclassification, she also announced that the Government would look into the issue of hydroponics, cannabis seeds and the impunity with which some shops sell paraphernalia which is often not for any other purpose. I hope that that review will start to answer some of the questions that my hon. Friend raised.
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005
Subjects
Crime prevention; Crime; Cannabis; Drugs; Misuse; Mushrooms; Rehabilitation; Hallucinogens
Date
9 June 2008
Reference
477 c10-1
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
In a house in the centre of Macclesfield, in Bridge street, 17,000 cannabis plants were found. They were found only because the electricity system that was helping the plants to grow could not cope with the demand, a fire occurred and the fire service went in. Does the Minister accept that if more police were on the beat—on the street—going past such properties, that sort of thing would not occur, and that the police have a role in trying to ensure that drugs which are killers are not grown in the middle of a town such as Macclesfield?
In a house in the centre of Macclesfield, in Bridge street, 17,000 cannabis plants were found. They were found only because the electricity system that was helping the plants to grow could not cope with the demand, a fire occurred and the fire service went in. Does the Minister accept that if more police were on the beat—on the street—going past such properties, that sort of thing would not occur, and that the police have a role in trying to ensure that drugs which are killers are not grown in the middle of a town such as Macclesfield?
Asked by
Nicholas Winterton
(Conservative)
Answering body
Home Office
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
9 June 2008
The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, and of course police on the street make a real difference. I shall be meeting the Association of Chief Police Officers to discuss cannabis farms and factories, which are a major worry for us all. The hon. Gentleman will have heard my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary, in her announcement that the Government would reclassify cannabis from class C to class B, which will also help with police priorities, say that she would organise a meeting with the electricity companies and others to consider whether there is any way we can identify domestic properties that do not have a normal domestic bill, for obvious reasons, and take appropriate action. I hope that that reassures the hon. Gentleman.
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005
Subjects
Crime prevention; Crime; Cannabis; Drugs; Misuse; Mushrooms; Rehabilitation; Hallucinogens
Date
9 June 2008
Reference
477 c10
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
That Act was passed with all-party approval—always a worrying sign—shortly before the last general election, when all parties wanted to appear tough on drugs. One of its provisions put magic mushrooms in exactly the same category as heroin—a tough decision, but a very stupid one. How many young people have been criminalised and imprisoned under that new provision?
That Act was passed with all-party approval—always a worrying sign—shortly before the last general election, when all parties wanted to appear tough on drugs. One of its provisions put magic mushrooms in exactly the same category as heroin—a tough decision, but a very stupid one. How many young people have been criminalised and imprisoned under that new provision?
Asked by
Paul Flynn
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
9 June 2008
As I have just said, since the passage of the Act the percentage of young people using magic mushrooms has fallen from 3 to 1.8 per cent. Significant increases in the import of fresh magic mushrooms to this country led the Government to take the action that they did. I know that my hon. Friend believes we should be doing other things, as well as taking action through legislation. He will have seen that the latest drugs strategy deals with many of the things for which he has long been calling—improved treatment, access to support for families, and many other measures that I know he believes also make a difference.
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005
Subjects
Crime; Drugs; Misuse; Mushrooms; Hallucinogens; Rehabilitation
Date
9 June 2008
Reference
477 c10
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
First, it would be remiss of me not to welcome my hon. Friend back to the House from her leave. We all welcome her back.
In similar vein to the answer that I gave to the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Sir Nicholas Winterton), my hon. Friend is right to point out the importance of taking action against cannabis factories and cannabis farms. As I said, the reclassification of cannabis will make a huge difference. In the same announcement in which my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary announced reclassification, she also announced that the Government would look into the issue of hydroponics, cannabis seeds and the impunity with which some shops sell paraphernalia which is often not for any other purpose. I hope that that review will start to answer some of the questions that my hon. Friend raised.
First, it would be remiss of me not to welcome my hon. Friend back to the House from her leave. We all welcome her back.
In similar vein to the answer that I gave to the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Sir Nicholas Winterton), my hon. Friend is right to point out the importance of taking action against cannabis factories and cannabis farms. As I said, the reclassification of cannabis will make a huge difference. In the same announcement in which my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary announced reclassification, she also announced that the Government would look into the issue of hydroponics, cannabis seeds and the impunity with which some shops sell paraphernalia which is often not for any other purpose. I hope that that review will start to answer some of the questions that my hon. Friend raised.
Answered by
Lord Coaker
(Labour)
Asked by
Mary Creagh
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Oral answers to questions
Will my hon. Friend join me in congratulating Wakefield's police, who this year alone have shut down not one but eight cannabis factories in residential properties in Pinderfields road, Wesley street and on Bradford road, just a few doors down from where I live? Does he agree that we need to do more to shut down hydroponics shops that have sprung up in all sorts of places and which provide the seeds and the hardware kit that allow organised gangs of criminals to come in, use people who have been trafficked, and put the plague of cannabis on to our streets?
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005
Subjects
Crime; Drugs; Misuse; Mushrooms; Rehabilitation; Hallucinogens
Date
9 June 2008
Reference
477 c10-1
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
As I have just said, since the passage of the Act the percentage of young people using magic mushrooms has fallen from 3 to 1.8 per cent. Significant increases in the import of fresh magic mushrooms to this country led the Government to take the action that they did. I know that my hon. Friend believes we should be doing other things, as well as taking action through legislation. He will have seen that the latest drugs strategy deals with many of the things for which he has long been calling—improved treatment, access to support for families, and many other measures that I know he believes also make a difference.
As I have just said, since the passage of the Act the percentage of young people using magic mushrooms has fallen from 3 to 1.8 per cent. Significant increases in the import of fresh magic mushrooms to this country led the Government to take the action that they did. I know that my hon. Friend believes we should be doing other things, as well as taking action through legislation. He will have seen that the latest drugs strategy deals with many of the things for which he has long been calling—improved treatment, access to support for families, and many other measures that I know he believes also make a difference.
Answered by
Lord Coaker
(Labour)
Asked by
Paul Flynn
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Oral answers to questions
That Act was passed with all-party approval—always a worrying sign—shortly before the last general election, when all parties wanted to appear tough on drugs. One of its provisions put magic mushrooms in exactly the same category as heroin—a tough decision, but a very stupid one. How many young people have been criminalised and imprisoned under that new provision?
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005
Subjects
Crime; Drugs; Misuse; Mushrooms; Rehabilitation; Hallucinogens
Date
9 June 2008
Reference
477 c10
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, and of course police on the street make a real difference. I shall be meeting the Association of Chief Police Officers to discuss cannabis farms and factories, which are a major worry for us all. The hon. Gentleman will have heard my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary, in her announcement that the Government would reclassify cannabis from class C to class B, which will also help with police priorities, say that she would organise a meeting with the electricity companies and others to consider whether there is any way we can identify domestic properties that do not have a normal domestic bill, for obvious reasons, and take appropriate action. I hope that that reassures the hon. Gentleman.
The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, and of course police on the street make a real difference. I shall be meeting the Association of Chief Police Officers to discuss cannabis farms and factories, which are a major worry for us all. The hon. Gentleman will have heard my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary, in her announcement that the Government would reclassify cannabis from class C to class B, which will also help with police priorities, say that she would organise a meeting with the electricity companies and others to consider whether there is any way we can identify domestic properties that do not have a normal domestic bill, for obvious reasons, and take appropriate action. I hope that that reassures the hon. Gentleman.
Answered by
Lord Coaker
(Labour)
Asked by
Nicholas Winterton
(Conservative)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Oral answers to questions
In a house in the centre of Macclesfield, in Bridge street, 17,000 cannabis plants were found. They were found only because the electricity system that was helping the plants to grow could not cope with the demand, a fire occurred and the fire service went in. Does the Minister accept that if more police were on the beat—on the street—going past such properties, that sort of thing would not occur, and that the police have a role in trying to ensure that drugs which are killers are not grown in the middle of a town such as Macclesfield?
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005
Subjects
Crime; Drugs; Misuse; Mushrooms; Rehabilitation; Hallucinogens
Date
9 June 2008
Reference
477 c10
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
What assessment she has made of the effects of the Drugs Act 2005.
What assessment she has made of the effects of the Drugs Act 2005.
Asked by
Paul Flynn
(Labour)
Answered by
Lord Coaker
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Tabled on
3 June 2008
For answer on
9 June 2008
Answered on
9 June 2008
The Drugs Act 2005 introduced a series of provisions. The Home Office published research in 2007 that identified the positive effect of the Act in improving the grip that the Government exert on drug-using offenders, through the drug interventions programme, by getting larger numbers of drug users to enter drug treatment. Following our clarification in the Act of the law on magic mushrooms, the British crime survey 2006-07 showed a decrease in use in the past year across all age ranges, with a significant decrease among 16 to 24-year-olds, from 3 to 1.8 per cent.
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005
Subjects
Crime; Drugs; Misuse; Mushrooms; Rehabilitation; Hallucinogens
Date
9 June 2008
Reference
477 c9; 208946
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been remanded in police custody for a further 192 hours under the Drugs Act 2005 for drug trafficking offences.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been remanded in police custody for a further 192 hours under the Drugs Act 2005 for drug trafficking offences.
Asked by
David Davis
(Conservative)
Answered by
Paul Goggins
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
30 January 2006
For answer on
1 February 2006
Answered on
6 February 2006
The power for a magistrate to remand into police custody a person charged with a drug trafficking offence for a period of up to 192 hours was contained in the Drugs Act 2005. This provision commenced on 1 January 2006, and no figures are available for its use to date.
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005
Subjects
Crime; Drugs; Police custody; Remand in custody; Smuggling
Date
6 February 2006
Reference
47711; 442 c937W;442 c937W
House
House of Commons
Consultation letter regarding the prescribed amounts (thresholds) of controlled drugs found in a person's possession above which a court will presume that it was held with intent to supply others.
Consultation letter regarding the prescribed amounts (thresholds) of controlled drugs found in a person's possession above which a court will presume that it was held with intent to supply others.
Deposited by
Home Office
Type
Consultation papers;
Deposited papers
Author
Home Office
Committed on
20 January 2006
Originated on
30 November 2005
Received on
20 January 2006
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005; Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
Subjects
Crime; Crown Prosecution Service; Evidence; Drugs; Police; Prosecutions; Misuse; Sentencing; Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
Lords Library location
HINF 2006/145
Date
20 January 2006
Reference
HINF 2006/145
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the change in the numbers of people who will be (a) arrested, (b) brought to court and (c) imprisoned in the next three years as a result of the Drugs Act 2005.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the change in the numbers of people who will be (a) arrested, (b) brought to court and (c) imprisoned in the next three years as a result of the Drugs Act 2005.
Asked by
Paul Flynn
(Labour)
Answered by
Paul Goggins
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
9 January 2006
For answer on
11 January 2006
Answered on
19 January 2006
The regulatory impact assessment drawn up in connection with the implementation of the Drugs Act 2005 focussed on the additional number of convictions and offenders imprisoned on an annual basis. The figures were 2,294 and 287 respectively. No estimate was put on numbers of arrests and prosecutions.
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005
Subjects
Crime; Convictions; Drugs
Date
19 January 2006
Reference
41698; 441 c1576W
House
House of Commons
Section 21 of the Drugs Act 2005 will come into force on 18 July 2005. Section 21 has amended the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 so that any fungi containing psilocin or an ester of psilocin—commonly known as magic mushrooms—are controlled drugs. Psilocin is already a class A drug—fresh magic...
Section 21 of the Drugs Act 2005 will come into force on 18 July 2005. Section 21 has amended the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 so that any fungi containing psilocin or an ester of psilocin—commonly known as magic mushrooms—are controlled drugs. Psilocin is already a class A drug—fresh magic...
Member
Paul Goggins
(Labour)
Department
Home Office
Type
Written statements
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005
Subjects
Drugs; Mushrooms; Hallucinogens; Fungi; Statutory instruments
Date
23 June 2005
Reference
435 c49-50WS
House
House of Commons
My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Paul Goggins) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. Section 21 of the Drugs Act 2005 will come into force on 18 July 2005. Section 21 has amended the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 so that any fungi...
My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Paul Goggins) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. Section 21 of the Drugs Act 2005 will come into force on 18 July 2005. Section 21 has amended the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 so that any fungi...
Member
Baroness Scotland of Asthal
(Labour)
Department
Home Office
Type
Written statements
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005
Subjects
Drugs; Mushrooms; Hallucinogens; Fungi; Statutory instruments
Date
23 June 2005
Reference
672 c79-80WS
House
House of Lords
Type
Public acts
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005; Drugs Bill 2004/05
Subjects
Children; Cannabis; Anti-social behaviour; Body searches; Drugs; Offenders; Misuse; Mushrooms; Anti-social behaviour orders; Hallucinogens; Sentencing; Schools; Young people; Testing; X-rays
Date
7 April 2005
Reference
CHAP 17 2005