§ Mr. Harry BarnesTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list, for each of the past four years for which figures are available, the numbers of prosecutions brought by his Department against people claimed to be dealing illegally in anabolic steroids; and at which level of the courts such cases were pursued.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyThe information requested is as follows:
Year Prosecutions Court 1990 One (7 charges) Magistrates 1989 Two (2 charges) Magistrates 1989 Two (10 charges) Crown 1988 Two (48 charges) Crown 1987 Three (3 charges) Crown