§ Mr. TynanTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the benchmark street price for cannabis used when calculating the value of seizures by his Department was in each of the last five years; what changes have been made to this figure in the last six months; and what the reasons for those changes were. [155559]
§ Caroline FlintAccording to data collected by the National Criminal Intelligence Service the UK average street price for cannabis has been as follows over the last five years.
£ per ounce As at December Herbal Cannabis Cannabis Resin 1999 89 100 2000 82 85 2001 80 77 2002 83 81 2003 72 66 In August 2003 the figures were £74 and £66. We are not aware of any other changes in recent months.