§ Mr. McTaggartasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish in the Official Report the numbers identified as taking notifiable drugs in each year since 1975; if separate figures are available for Scotland; and if he will also publish them.
§ Mr. MellorThe available information relates to persons notified to the Home Office as addicted to notifiable drugs, and figures for the United Kingdom and Scotland for the years 1978 to 1983 are given in tables 3.11 to 3.13 of "Statistics of the Misuse of Drugs, United Kingdom, Supplementary Tables, 1983," a copy of which is in the Library of the House. The corresponding figures for 1975 to 1977 are as follows:
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New addicts notified during year Former addicts notified during year Addicts recorded as receiving notifiable drugs in treatment of their addiction at 31 December Scotland 1975 35 7 57 1976 57 20 65 1977 38 18 63