Angela Eagle: ...party has been hiring eastern Europeans to deliver its anti-immigration leaflets, and the Deputy Prime Minister appears to have resorted to backing a report that calls for the legalisation of cannabis. I suppose mind-altering drugs are the only thing that might persuade people to vote for him. At his campaign launch on Monday, he was reduced to pleading with his activists to shout from the...
Angela Eagle: The following table shows the number of seizures and quantities of heroin, cocaine and cannabis seized by HM Revenue and Customs in each of the years since 1997. Methamphetamine was reclassified as a Class A drug on the 18 January 2007, prior to this HMRC did not collect seizure data on methamphetamine. No seizures of methamphetamine were made in the period 18 January 2007 to 31 March...
Angela Eagle: ...and volumes of production in source countries. Since 2003-04, HM Revenue and Customs have seized the following quantities of drugs. Kilogrammes Financial year Heroin Cocaine Ecstasy Cannabis 2006-07 527 2,368 1,212 62,966 2005-06 1,057 5,798 468 41,611 2004-05 1,613 8,606 740 57,504 2003-04 1,626 20,727 1,245 57,617 The figures for 2006-07...
Angela Eagle: ...the Concerted Inter-agency Drugs Action group (CIDA). The individual agencies that formed CIDA, including HMRC did not have their own specific targets. No seizure targets were set for ecstasy or cannabis. HM Revenue & Customs was one of the contributing agencies to CIDA's overall seizure target quantities. HMRC seized the following quantities of drugs in each of the last four years. ...