HC Deb 15 December 1988 vol 143 c716W
82. Mr. Michael J. Martin

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what extra resources he intends to make available in order to reduce drug taking.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

In accordance with the Government's strategy for reducing both supply and demand, extra resources are being committed for: reducing supplies from India by a contribution of £1 million a year through the United Nations fund for drug abuse control; increasing the effectiveness of enforcement by the provision of some £10 million for additional specialist drugs investigators and improved technical aids for Her Majesty's Customs and Excise; developing prevention and education through the latest phase of the drug prevention publicity campaign and, in England and Wales, by an additional year of central funding for drugs education co-ordinators in the area of each local education authority; and improving treatment and rehabilitation. An additional £3 million is to be provided in 1988–89 for the expansion of drug misuse services in England to help prevent the spread of HIV infection.