§ Mr. Simon Hughesasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give the total number of convictions for drug-related offences by (a) adults and (b) young people under 17 years of age in the last year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. MellorInformation on the numbers of persons found guilty in the United Kingdom of drugs offences in 1984, the latest year for which information is available, is given by age group in table 2.11 of "Statistics of the Misuse of Drugs, United Kingdom, Supplementary Tables, 1984". In 1984, 401 persons aged under 17 and 22,481 persons aged 17 and over were found guilty of drugs offences.
§ Mr. Simon Hughesasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give the total number of convictions for offences of supplying drugs in the last year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. MellorThe information requested is given in table 8 of "Statistics of the Misuse of Drugs in the United Kingdom, 1984 (Home Office Statistical Bulletin 23/85). In 1984, 1,426 persons were found guilty of unlawful supply of drugs.