RESEARCH / VERSION 1.1 / 16 OCTOBER 2026
Drug-supply valuation, mixed England / England-and-Wales coverage
£14.3bn combines the six-drug England subtotal and a separate cannabis model.
| Field | Evidence |
|---|---|
| Reference period | Labelled year ending March 2024; mixed input periods |
| Coverage | England for six drugs; England and Wales for cannabis |
| Status | Published estimate |
| Source-check date | 2026-10-16 |
| Measure | Mixed-geography drug-supply valuation |
| Value | 14.3 GBP billion |
| Currency / price basis | Source prices; no CLA inflation adjustment |
| Publication date | 2026-09-15 |
| Reference period | Labelled year ending March 2024; mixed input periods |
| Substances covered | Illicit drugs; see scope |
| Method | Adds WAND subtotal to survey-model cannabis expenditure. |
| Estimate family | wand-plus-cannabis-2024 |
| Relationship to other estimates | combination containing earlier subtotal |
| Earlier estimate repeated / parent | economy-wand-2024-25 |
| Variant: Cannabis CSEW-based model | 2.3 GBP billion; England and Wales; included component |
| Variant: Cannabis APMS-based alternative | 3.6 GBP billion; England and Wales; alternative component, not additional spending |
| Component: Six-drug England subtotal | 12 GBP billion |
| Component: Cannabis England and Wales | 2.3 GBP billion |
| Variant / component limit | The £3.6bn cannabis alternative substitutes for £2.3bn. These two values are not endpoints of a statistical confidence interval. |
| Uncertainty | No statistical confidence interval supplied in this record. |
Interpretation limits
Not a full UK total. Later wastewater observations stand in for the labelled year. The subtotal is already included; do not add it again.
Sources
- Home Office: The proceeds of crime in England and Wales 2023 to 2024 — Section 2.4, Tables 1–2 and section 2.4.1
Cite this record
Civil Liberties Action (2026). The illegal drugs economy: Drug-supply valuation, mixed England / England-and-Wales coverage. Record economy-ho-proceeds-2024, version 1.1, 2026-10-16. https://cla-political-finance.copperchime4.chatgpt.site/databases/releases/2026-10-16-v1.1/records/economy/economy-ho-proceeds-2024.html
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