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HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyThe hon. Lady often vents her fury and anguish about the situation in Glasgow, which is appalling, on me. She rarely does it on our Scottish Government colleagues—06 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyI am afraid that the devolution of justice in Wales would not achieve the right hon. Lady’s suggested objectives, not least because the drug supply lines into Wales run from…06 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyI welcome my hon. Friend’s comments. She represents what is sadly one of the drug epicentres of the country in central London, and she is right that much of the drug abuse,…06 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyI agree with both the hon. Lady and my hon. Friend the Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Nickie Aiken). Of the £300 million that we will be spending, £145 million will…06 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyI am grateful to my hon. Friend. I agree that Northamptonshire police’s bust a couple of weeks ago was remarkable. It was a huge one, intercepting drugs valued into the many…06 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyThat is a matter for the Department of Health and Social Care, but, where requests have come to me to facilitate the acquisition of those products for affected families who need…06 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyI understand what my hon. Friend said about the implications of the Act. At the moment, we do not have any plans to revise it, but we will bring forward a White Paper in the…06 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyOur intentions are genuine and the money is there; I hope and believe that the strategy will make a difference over the next decade. As I said, we will look at evidence from…06 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyAs a rural Member, I have seen the impact of county lines in my constituency, and my hon. Friend is absolutely right that the pernicious effect of this method of distribution and…06 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyI certainly will.06 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyMy hon. Friend raises a very good point. There are penalties in place, but I would be more than happy to look again at whether we are achieving the deterrent effect that we need.…06 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyA number of very serious child exploitation offences that carry very heavy sentences are committed in relation to drugs. As the hon. Lady knows, in that Bill we are raising the…06 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyI am pleased to hear that my hon. Friend is delighted by the actions of her local police force. I know that Leicestershire police are working hard on drugs in her constituency and…06 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyI do not know whether the hon. Gentleman is conflating heroin-assisted treatment with overdose prevention centres, but as he may know, heroin-assisted treatment is under way in…06 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyAs I said earlier, we hope that those who design the local frameworks to bring about the recovery chains that we want to see will take account of the skills and facilities that…06 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyAs I say, I think there is a big difference with this plan, which is that on the supply side we are very much coming at this from an economic point of view. We have done an…06 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyThe right hon. Gentleman puts his finger on one of the key issues. One of the issues that I have discussed with the police is that when we arrest people, they ought to be…06 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyI am grateful to my hon. Friend for his words of encouragement. It has been an enormous effort across the whole of Government to put this plan together. I congratulate my team,…06 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyWe absolutely will, and our plan contains an ambition to significantly increase the denial of assets to the criminal fraternity. We know that this business, if it is a business—a…06 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyI obviously recognise the hon. Gentleman’s concern in this area, given the scale of the problem in Scotland, which is by far and away the worst in the western world. I know that…06 Dec 2021