HC Deb 06 December 1989 vol 163 c257W
Mr. John Evans

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has any plans to set up a fund to counter the use and supply of illicit drugs.

Mr. Mellor

Subject to detailed scrutiny of estimates and parliamentary approval, we are to set up a new central fund of £1 million in 1990–91 to enable the Government to meet some of the additional costs of international drugs efforts, including investigations by the police and rewards to major informants.

Mr. Mans

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what measures police forces are taking in conjunction with local education authorities to warn pupils of the dangers of drug taking.

Mr. Mellor

I refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridgeshire, South-East (Mr. Paice) On 5 December.

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