HC Deb 20 February 1986 vol 92 cc297-8W
31. Mr. Allan Roberts

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will meet the members of the Merseyside police authority to discuss heroin sales on Merseyside.

Mr. Mellor

We have received no such request for a meeting, but we should be willing to consider any representations from the police authority about this problem.

57. Mr. Merchant

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give the latest figures on heroin addiction in the north-east; and what was the comparable figure in 1983.

Mr. Mellor

The available information relates to addicts notified to the Home Office as addicted to heroin and is given for police force areas in the north-east in the following table. Corresponding figures for 1985 will not be available before the late summer.

Drug addicts notified to the Home Office as addicted to heroin (alone or in combination with other drugs)
Number of persons
Police force area New addicts Former addicts
1983 1984 1983 1984
Cleveland 6 2 1
Durham 5 5 3
Northumbria 9 36 2 6
Total 20 43 2 10

67. Mr. Patrick Thompson

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give figures for the known cases of cocaine and heroin addiction for the last six months of 1985.

Mr. Mellor

The latest available information on addicts notified to the Home Office relates to 1984. The numbers reported as addicted to heroin and cocaine are given in the following table; corresponding figures for 1985 will not be available before the late summer.

Drug addicts notified to the Home Office in 1984 as addicted to heroin or cocaine
United Kingdom Number of persons
New addicts Former addicts
Heroine alone or with other drugs but not with cocaine 4,547 1,499
Cocaine alone or with other drugs but not with heroin 92 9
Heroin and cocaine together, with or without other drugs 379 186