Written questions

1,690 written questions tabled, most recent first.

11 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Police: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how often audits are conducted on police database access logs to detect and deter unauthorised access by officers and staff.

11 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Police: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what independent oversight mechanisms are in place to monitor and investigate the misuse of police databases by officers and staff.

11 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Cybercrime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of whether there is a correlation between the (a) (i) roles and (ii) ranks of police personnel and (b) likelihood of committing cybercrimes; and what steps her

11 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Cybercrime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle cybercrime perpetrated by police (a) officers and (b) staff.

11 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Cybercrime: Convictions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of cybercrime convictions involved (a) police (i) officers and (ii) staff and (b) other people in each of the last five years.

11 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Police: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what training is provided to police (a) officers and (b) staff on the ethical use of police databases; and how frequently that training is updated.

11 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Police: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many instances of unauthorised access to police databases by (a) officers and (b) staff have been recorded in each the last five years; and what disciplinary actions were taken in each case.

11 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Police: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures her Department has put in place to prevent the misuse of police databases by (a) officers and (b) staff; and if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of those measures in the

11 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Cannabis: International Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential (a) implications for his policies of international examples of state-run cannabis markets and (b) impact of those markets on (i) economic growth and

11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Cannabis: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate her Department has made of the proportion of magistrates' court cases that involved cannabis possession in the last 12 months; and if she will make an estimate of the potential impact of legalising

11 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Cannabis: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies on the level of police resources for tackling cannabis use of the report by TRANSFORM Drug Policy Foundation, entitled Hig

11 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Cannabis: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of cannabis legalisation on (a) reducing county lines drug trafficking and (b) associated law enforcement costs.

11 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Cannabis: Taxation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of (a) reduced criminal justice costs and (b) increased tax revenue from legal cannabis on the economy.

11 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Cannabis: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of reducing cannabis-related (a) arrests, (b) prosecutions and (c) court cases on the costs of the criminal justice system.

11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Cannabis: Sentencing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the annual cost of imprisonment due to cannabis-related offences.

11 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Cannabis: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the annual cost of policing cannabis-related offences.

11 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Cannabis: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has reviewed international evidence on the impact of legal cannabis markets on (a) healthcare costs and (b) service demand.

11 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Cannabis: Taxation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of directing tax revenue from regulated cannabis into NHS mental health services.

11 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cannabis: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of cannabis-related mental health admissions on NHS finances.

11 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cannabis: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the annual cost of cannabis-related health conditions to the NHS.

11 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the proposed increase in the certificate of sponsorship fee on the adult social care sector; and if he will hold discussions with the Chancell

10 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Drugs: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has conducted an equality impact assessment on (a) the racial disparities in drug law enforcement and (b) how a regulated cannabis market could address these.

10 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Drugs: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of cannabis legalisation on racial disparities in drug-related arrests and sentencing.

10 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Stop and Search: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle racial disparities in drug-related stop and search rates.

10 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cannabis: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has considered funding public health campaigns to educate young people on the risks of cannabis use within a regulated market.

10 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Cannabis: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of a legal cannabis market on criminal exploitation of young people by drug gangs.

10 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Cannabis: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent studies her Department has considered on the effectiveness of regulated cannabis markets in reducing adolescent cannabis consumption.

10 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Cannabis

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has considered reallocating police resources currently spent on cannabis-related enforcement to other public safety priorities.

10 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Cannabis: Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of a legal cannabis industry on UK (a) job creation, (b) investment and (c) economic growth.

10 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Cannabis: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with international counterparts from countries that have legalised cannabis on the (a) economic and (b) public health impacts of regulation.

Source: official written-questions record.