14. To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of measures to combat drug-related crime. (254650)

A key indicator of the effectiveness of measures to combat drug-related crime is the Drug Harm Index; since 2002 this has fallen 28 per cent., representing a substantial fall in drug-related crime types.

Recorded acquisitive crime—to which drug-related crime makes a significant contribution—has fallen by a similar amount.