Drug-related Assets

HC Deb 13 June 2003 vol 406 cc1100-1W

Mr. Menzies Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the value is of drug-related assets that have been recovered each year since May 2000. [117919]

Mr. Bob Ainsworth

The receipts remitted to the Secretary of State from confiscation orders made under the Drug Trafficking Acts 1986 and 1994 and from drug cash seizures under the Drug Trafficking Act 1994 for each year from 2000 were:

£14,827,000 for 2000–01 and £16,503,000 for 2001–02. The figure for the year 2002–03 is not yet available.