§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total number of drug-related offences in each of the past 10 years in(a) London and (b) the rest of the United Kingdom. [47123]
§ Mr. MichaelThe information requested is not collected centrally. However, the Home Office has a research programme designed to shed further light on the links between drugs and crime. A study conducted by the University of Cambridge of drug use by samples of people arrested by the police in various English cities was published recently (Home Office Research Study 183—Drugs and Crime: the results of research on drug testing and interviewing arrestees). This research found that, in those places surveyed, around one third of property crime was drug-driven.