Psilocybin

Home Office written question – answered at on 8 June 2023.

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Photo of Crispin Blunt Crispin Blunt Conservative, Reigate

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the (a) date and (b) minutes of the meeting referred to in The Official Report of 18 May 2023, Vol. 732, Col. 1038, between her Department's Chief Scientific Adviser and the Chief Medical Officer and the Chief Scientific Officer in the Department of Health and Social Care on the topic of the rescheduling of psilocybin.

Photo of Chris Philp Chris Philp The Minister of State, Home Department

The meeting referred to in Hansard was on reducing barriers to research into controlled drugs, rather than on the rescheduling of psilocybin. It took place on 28 April 2023.

The Home Office has no plans to publish minutes of this meeting, which was intended to support the provision of advice to Ministers.

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