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Cannabis

Volume 407: debated on Monday 16 June 2003

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24.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what changes he estimates there will be in police expenditure in the next financial year following the reclassification of cannabis. [119035]

Violence against the personSexual offences
Crime and disorder reduction partnershipsNote 1Note 2Note 3Note 1Note 2Note 3
Camden5,4732.727.041630.82.1
City of London5939.493.133230.05.2
City of Westminster8,7343.035.711149.33.2
Brent5,688-1.522.3334-1.51.3
Baling6,8426.422.0342-0.61.1
Greenwich6,257-0.828.73615.21.7
Hackney6,7026.033.0370-0.31.8
Haringey5,088-2.222.649214.22.2
Islington5,6674.131.834731.41.9
Lambeth8,2324.129.8544-3.02.0
Lewisham5,5013.222.43894.61.6
Newham7,5502.831.543329.61.8
Southwark7,7604.332.5438-1.41.8
Tower Hamlets6,3907.134.2347-9.41.9
Barnet4,8425.914.024511.40.7
Croydon6,206-1.918.3384-2.01.1
Enfield5,0775.818.829615.61.1
Hammersmith & Fulham4,283-1.925.8219-1.41.3

The reclassification of cannabis is designed to continue to deter the use of cannabis while allowing the police to redeploy their resources to tackling more serious offences, including dealing in Class A drugs. It is vital that the police direct their resourcing priorities to tackling drugs, such as heroin and crack cocaine, which cause the most harm and often lead to other crimes, and this is what the reclassification of cannabis will enable them to do.