[holding answer 10 September 2008]: The Home Office allocated the following sums of money in each of the last five years to support the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs:
Sum allocated to the ACMD (£) 2003-04 80,000 2004-05 135,000 2005-06 165,000 2006-07 152,000 2007-08 152,800
In addition the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs secretariat staff and other civil servant costs have not been allocated as such costs are subsumed within normal salaried remuneration and within existing budgets.