Cannabis: Crime

Home Office written question – answered at on 14 March 2025.

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Photo of Bell Ribeiro-Addy Bell Ribeiro-Addy Labour, Clapham and Brixton Hill

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.

Photo of Diana R. Johnson Diana R. Johnson The Minister of State, Home Department

It is not possible from the available data to separate out the costs of policing these particular offences from other policing responsibilities, including in relation to other controlled substances.

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