RESEARCH / VERSION 1.1 / 16 OCTOBER 2026
ONS narcotics expenditure, 2025 — September 2026 vintage
ONS records £2.911bn for 2025 in the 30 September 2026 release.
| Field | Evidence |
|---|---|
| Reference period | 2025 |
| Coverage | United Kingdom |
| Status | Published estimate |
| Source-check date | 2026-10-16 |
| Measure | National accounts household expenditure |
| Value | 2.911 GBP billion |
| Currency / price basis | Current prices; non-seasonally adjusted annual observation |
| Publication date | 2026-09-30 |
| Reference period | 2025 |
| Substances covered | Narcotics, COICOP 02.3 |
| Method | Consumer trends MNC2: annual current-price, non-seasonally-adjusted household expenditure. |
| Estimate family | ons-household-narcotics |
| Relationship to other estimates | revised data vintage |
| Earlier estimate repeated / parent | economy-ons-2025-hfce |
| Uncertainty | No statistical confidence interval supplied in this record. |
Interpretation limits
Accounting estimate, not independently observed retail receipts. Replaces the June vintage in current comparisons; do not average the vintages or interpret the revision as a change in 2025 consumption.
Sources
- ONS: 02.3 Narcotics CP NSA £m, series MNC2 — Annual table, 2025 = 2911; release 30 September 2026
Cite this record
Civil Liberties Action (2026). The illegal drugs economy: ONS narcotics expenditure, 2025 — September 2026 vintage. Record economy-ons-2025-september, 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-september.html
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