§ 5. Mr. F. Noel-Bakerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information regarding the effect of drugs prone to give rise to addiction and which are on sale to the general public, is in the possession of medical officers at Holloway, Brixton and other prisons; and if he will ask the Prison Commission for, and publish, a report.
§ Mr. VosperAfter very full inquiry, my right hon. Friend is satisfied that there is insufficient material for the compilation of a useful report on this subject. Persons believed, or in some cases known, to have been in the habit of taking these drugs, have certainly committed crimes, some of them serious; but the connection, if any, between the habit and the crime has not so far been determined.