§ Mr. HawkinsTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the relationship between the street price and purity of(a) cocaine and (b) heroin in the last 10 years. [9464]
§ Mr. Bob Ainsworth[holding answer 22 October 2001]: Information on mean purity of seizures is available from April 1997 to March 2001 and this together with average street prices over the same period is set out in the table.
1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 Heroin purity (percentage) 35.3 38.2 43.6 49.7 Price per gram (£)1 74 74 65 70 Cocaine purity (percentage) 52.3 55.9 60.2 53.5 Price per gram (£)1 71 77 75 65 1 in December