Pre-release access list for: Seizures of drugs in England and Wales, financial year ending 2024
Published 16 January 2025
Applies to England and Wales
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In addition to the Chief Statistician and staff in the Drugs, Exploitation and Abuse Analysis Unit responsible for the production and quality assurance of these statistics, the following persons were given pre-release access to these statistics 24 hours in advance of release:
Home Office
- Home Secretary
- Minister of State (Minister for Policing, Fire and Crime Prevention)
- Minister of State (Minister for Security)
- Minister of State (Minister for Border Security and Asylum)
- Minister for Migration and Citizenship
- Permanent Secretary
- Special Advisers (2)
- Chief Scientific Adviser
- Director General, Public Safety Group
- Director, International Serious and Organised Crime
- Director, Home Office Analysis and Insight Directorate
- Regional Director, Border Force Central Region
- Deputy Head of Statistics
- Policy Officials, Drug Supply and County Lines (1)
- Policy Officials, Drugs Misuse Unit (1)
- Policy Officials, International Serious and Organised Crime (3)
- Border Force Operational Tasking and Coordination (2)
- Border Force Performance and Analysis Unit (1)
- Press Officers, Crime Desk (1)
- Borders Communications Team (3)
In addition, Private Secretaries in the Ministers’ and Special Advisers’ Private Offices will have access to pre-release figures for handling arrangements.
Pre-release access was also given to the following persons from outside the Home Office 24 hours in advance of release:
External
- National Crime Agency Drug Lead (1)