RESEARCH / VERSION 1.1 / 16 OCTOBER 2026
Home Office confirms the existing estimate, 2025
The minister points back to the Black review for cannabis, cocaine and opiates.
| Field | Evidence |
|---|---|
| Reference period | 2016/17 (repeated in 2025) |
| Coverage | England and Wales |
| Status | Repeats earlier estimate |
| Source-check date | 2026-10-14 |
| Measure | Source status / repeated estimate |
| Value | No new numerical estimate |
| Currency / price basis | No new estimate |
| Publication date | 2025-09-11 |
| Reference period | 2016/17 (repeated in 2025) |
| Substances covered | Cannabis Powder cocaine Crack cocaine Opiates |
| Method | Parliamentary written answer, confirming the source of the department’s most recent estimate as at 11 September 2025. |
| Estimate family | home-office-2016-17 |
| Relationship to other estimates | repeat confirmation |
| Earlier estimate repeated / parent | economy-black-2016-total |
| Uncertainty | No statistical confidence interval supplied in this record. |
Interpretation limits
This answer adds no independently modelled market estimate. It does not establish that no other estimate appeared after its answer date.
Sources
- UK Parliament: written question 71709 — Answer by Sarah Jones, 11 September 2025
Cite this record
Civil Liberties Action (2026). The illegal drugs economy: Home Office confirms the existing estimate, 2025. Record economy-ho-2025-confirmation, version 1.1, 2026-10-16. https://cla-political-finance.copperchime4.chatgpt.site/databases/releases/2026-10-16-v1.1/records/economy/economy-ho-2025-confirmation.html
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