Part of Home Department – in the House of Commons at on 25 April 2022.
Rachel Maclean
The Minister of State, Home Department, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
The Government take this issue extremely seriously. We are taking a range of actions, including reclassifying GHB and related substances from class C to class B drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. These are the so-called date rape drugs that have been used in drug-facilitated crime, and we are of course considering the case for a specific criminal offence to target spiking, should it be required.