To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many children have been treated for (a) cocaine addiction and (b) cocaine-related illnesses in each of the last five years. (75071)

The Department does not hold this information centrally.

A major national survey conducted with over 9,000 secondary school children aged 11 to 15 showed that in 2005, 2 per cent. of pupils had taken cocaine in the previous year, a figure which has not changed since 2001¹.

¹ “Drug Use, smoking and drinking among young people in England in 2005”, National Centre for Social Research/National Foundation for Educational Research.