§ Lord AVEBURYasked Her Majesty's Government:
What advice has been given by the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy on the fortification of foodstuffs with a view to preventing vitamin D deficiencies in the Asian communities.
90WA(1) how many people were convicted under Section 4 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 for offences relating to cannabis in 1977, 1978, and 1979 (estimated);
(2) what percentage of these people were producing or supplying only limited quantities or growing only for themselves;
(3) how many were convicted under Section 5 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 for offences relating to cannabis in those years and what percentage of these were convictions for possession of quantities not exceeding 30 grams; and
(4) how many convictions were there under Section 6 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 in those years.
§ Lord BELSTEADThe only information available centrally relates to the total numbers found guilty of certain types of offence in 1977 and 1978. The total numbers of persons found guilty under Sections 4, 5 and 6 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 of offences relating to cannabis are given in the following table. More detailed information on the number of persons found guilty in 1978 in the United Kingdom of certain drugs offences involving cannabis was published in Table 4 of Home Office Statistical Bulletin 6/79, a copy of which has been placed in the Library of the House.
Persons found guilty under Sections 4, 5 and 6 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 of offence relating to cannabis:
§ Lord CULLEN of ASBHOURNEThe Committee on Medical Aspects to Food Policy endorsed the recommendations of the Working Party on the Fortification of Food with Vitamin D that milk, butter and flour of any type including chappati flour should not be fortified with Vitamin D and that the fortification of margarine and of other proprietary foods which are fortified with Vitamin D should be continued but not increased.