RESEARCH / VERSION 1.1 / 16 OCTOBER 2026
ONS narcotics expenditure, 2025 — June 2026 vintage
The displayed 30 June 2026 release records £3,058m for 2025.
| Field | Evidence |
|---|---|
| Reference period | 2025 |
| Coverage | United Kingdom |
| Status | Historical data vintage |
| Source-check date | 2026-10-14 |
| Measure | National accounts household expenditure |
| Value | 3.058 GBP billion |
| Currency / price basis | Nominal/source-period prices; no CLA inflation adjustment |
| Publication date | 2026-06-30 |
| Reference period | 2025 |
| Substances covered | Narcotics, COICOP 02.3 |
| Method | ONS consumer trends series MNC3: current-price, seasonally adjusted expenditure; annual observation. |
| Estimate family | ons-household-narcotics |
| Relationship to other estimates | superseded data vintage |
| Earlier estimate repeated / parent | No parent link asserted |
| Uncertainty | No statistical confidence interval supplied in this record. |
Interpretation limits
Historical June 2026 vintage retained for traceability. The September 2026 annual observation is £2.911bn; see the linked newer record. The original mutable source URL now displays newer data. MNC3 is seasonally adjusted; the report uses non-seasonally-adjusted MNC2. The September annual totals agree. Revisions are not a measured market decline.
Sources
- ONS: 02.3 Narcotics CP SA £m, series MNC3 — Annual table, 2025 = 3058; displayed release 30 June 2026
Cite this record
Civil Liberties Action (2026). The illegal drugs economy: ONS narcotics expenditure, 2025 — June 2026 vintage. Record economy-ons-2025-hfce, version 1.1, 2026-10-16. https://cla-political-finance.copperchime4.chatgpt.site/databases/releases/2026-10-16-v1.1/records/economy/economy-ons-2025-hfce.html
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