United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 37294
Cannabis: Crime
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11 March 2025
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19 March 2025 · Answer
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate her Department has made of the proportion of magistrates' court cases that involved cannabis possession in the last 12 months; and if she will make an estimate of the potential impact of legalising
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11 March 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate her Department has made of the proportion of magistrates' court cases that involved cannabis possession in the last 12 months; and if she will make an estimate of the potential impact of legalising
Source: Commons
19 March 2025
Answer
The latest published data shows that 1.0% of magistrates’ courts proceedings in the year to June 2024 (12,429 defendants) in England and Wales were for cannabis possession offences. (Source: Criminal Justice System statistics quarterly: June 2024 - GOV.UK...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-03-11/37294
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1783224
- uk · wq-1783224 · source updated 19 March 2025