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Drug Seizures
Mr. Greg Knight: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what (a) quantity and (b) types of illegal drugs were seized at East Midlands airport in the last 28 days; how many arrests have been made in connection therewith; and if he will make a statement. [97335]
Mr. McNulty: The requested data cannot be provided as to publish location specific statistics on seizures would make strategically valuable information available to criminal organizations.
Latest drug seizure figures for England and Wales relate to calendar year 2004. These were published as an internet-only Home Office Statistical Bulletin and can be found at www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/hosbpubs1.html.
HM Revenue and Customs also publishes drug seizure data within its annual report, the latest of which relates to financial year 2004-05. This can be found online via www.hmrc.gov.uk/about/reports.htm.
Drugs Convictions
David T.C. Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been convicted of supplying (a) Class A, (b) Class B, (c) Class C and (d) Class D drugs in each of the last five years; and how many were subsequently given the maximum possible sentence. [91507]
Mr. Coaker: The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 classifies illegal substances into three categories: class A, class B and class C. Available data relate to persons found guilty of unlawful supply and possession with intent to supply drug offences between 2000 and 2004 and are given in the tables.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts, police forces and other agencies. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when the data are used.
| Number of persons | ||||
| 2003 | 2004 | |||
| Drug and offence type | Found guilty | Maximum sentence (life) | Found guilty | Maximum sentence (life) |
| (1) As the same person may be found guilty of more than one offence, rows cannot be added together to produce totals. | ||||
| Table 2: persons( 1) (i) found guilty of drug supply offences and (ii) number given maximum sentence at crown court, class B drugs, by offence type4 and year, England and Wales—Class B drugs | ||||||
| Number of persons | ||||||
| 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | ||||
| Drug and offence type | Found guilty | Maximum sentence (14 years) | Found guilty | Maximum sentence (14 years) | Found guilty | Maximum sentence (14 years) |
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