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HANSARDTen-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 StrategyI certainly will.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 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 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 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 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 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 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 congratulate my hon. Friend on an extremely good question, and a very topical one. She will be pleased to hear that this morning I met the Korean ambassador and that country’s…06 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyFirst, all those in the secure estate who have a drug dependency or drug problem will receive a treatment place. We have made the commitment that 100% will be covered, and that…06 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyI am more than happy to confirm that we will look anywhere in the world where there are good ideas that are having impact and effect, but the evidence has to be properly…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 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyMy right hon. and learned Friend was pivotal in the development and thinking around the plan, particularly from a Ministry of Justice point of view, and I am very grateful that he…06 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyWe have undertaken to publish an annual report to Parliament evaluating our progress on all these matters.06 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyI am afraid that, while I obviously welcome some of the hon. Lady’s pleasure at what we are doing in the plan and I recognise, as she does, the need for some action, these…06 Dec 2021