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Drugs: Crime

Volume 486: debated on Tuesday 20 January 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) community sentences, including drug treatment and testing orders and drug rehabilitation referrals, (b) fines, (c) custodial sentences and (d) cautions were issued for drug dealing offences relating to each type of drug in each of the last five years. (248653)

The information requested is shown in the following table:

Number of persons issued with community sentences1, fines, custodial sentences and cautions for drug dealing offences2 relating to each type of drug 2003-07

Type of sentence

Year/type of drug

Fine

Community sentence

Suspended sentence

Immediate custody

Caution

2003

Cocaine

24

115

23

973

56

Heroin

19

401

36

1,979

39

LSD

0

3

0

4

4

MDMA

34

285

28

588

62

Crack

4

53

7

375

15

Methadone

1

11

0

10

8

Other class A

11

133

15

486

22

Amphetamine

12

92

17

146

20

Other class B

7

52

63

55

28

Cannabis

144

980

4

697

570

Anabolic Steroid

1

1

1

2

1

Other class C

6

35

2

17

20

Ketamine3

*

*

*

*

*

Methylamphetamine4

*

*

*

*

*

GHB

0

0

0

0

0

2004

Cocaine

17

166

12

1,029

66

Heroin

10

404

31

2,077

48

LSD

1

0

0

9

0

MDMA

15

232

16

494

59

Crack

3

71

4

386

19

Methadone

4

10

1

10

10

Other class A

7

105

6

546

29

Amphetamine

15

107

19

156

29

Other class B

4

40

61

46

14

Cannabis

122

821

2

576

555

Anabolic Steroid

0

5

0

4

4

Other class C

33

189

19

127

103

Ketamine

*

*

*

*

*

Methylamphetamine

*

*

*

*

*

GHB

0

0

0

0

0

2005

Cocaine

28

223

41

1,064

73

Heroin

10

526

48

1,750

65

LSD

0

7

1

9

1

MDMA

15

224

32

433

72

Crack

8

93

17

444

31

Methadone

1

10

4

9

11

Other class A

12

184

20

494

42

Amphetamine

13

129

20

153

26

Other class B

3

15

72

27

8

Cannabis

87

685

3

407

635

Anabolic Steroid

0

2

0

4

3

Other class C

47

360

53

319

90

Ketamine

*

*

*

*

*

Methylamphetamine

*

*

*

*

*

GHB

0

0

0

0

1

2006

Cocaine

21

163

141

1,132

132

Heroin

8

365

205

1,657

56

LSD

0

1

4

4

7

MDMA

24

124

89

337

87

Crack

7

82

40

433

30

Methadone

1

7

5

9

11

Other class A

6

123

59

484

54

Amphetamine

3

89

77

163

34

Other class B

2

11

271

7

9

Cannabis

50

496

7

341

621

Anabolic Steroid

0

1

1

0

5

Other class C

30

288

256

399

84

Ketamine

1

1

1

1

1

Methylamphetamine

*

*

*

*

*

GHB

0

0

0

0

1

2007

Cocaine

25

189

260

1,190

146

Heroin

10

288

260

1,706

45

LSD

2

4

2

7

6

MDMA

9

121

169

349

88

Crack

4

74

55

482

23

Methadone

1

7

4

7

10

Other class A

1

103

100

535

54

Amphetamine

10

66

123

148

50

Other class B

2

5

340

17

8

Cannabis

61

460

4

333

553

Anabolic Steroid

*

2

1

1

1

Other class C

31

223

332

352

78

Ketamine

3

4

0

0

15

Methylamphetamine

0

0

0

3

1

GHB

0

0

1

0

0

1 Community licences include drug treatment, testing orders and drug rehabilitation referrals.

2 Drug dealing offences comprise having possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply and supplying or offering to supply a controlled drug.

3 Ketamine drug was made illegal m 2006.

4 Methylamphetamine previously consulted with Amphetamine as class B drug was separately classified as class A drug on 18 January 2007.

Notes:

1. From 1 June 2O00 the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 came into force nationally and removed the use of cautions for persons under 18 and replaced them with reprimands and final warnings These figures have been included in the totals

2. The statistics relate to persons for whom these offences wets the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has committed two or more offences at the same time the principal offence is the more serious offence.

3. These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system.