Ninth Report - Spiking

Select Committee
Home Affairs Committee HC 967 26 April 2022
Report Status Government responded
Conclusions & Recommendations 22 items (11 recs)
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Government Response (AI assessment · 22 of 22 classified)
Accepted 6
Accepted in Part 2
Acknowledged 4
Deferred 8
Not Addressed 1
Rejected 1
Clear

Recommendations

1 results
18 Not Addressed
Para 89
Call for Home Office to require warnings and expedite spiking testing review
Recommendation
The Home Office should require commercially available drug-testing products to carry warnings about their limitations; expedite its planned scientific review of the relative merits of the various spiking testing pilots being run by the police, universities and hospitals and report … Read more
Government Response Summary
The government states there is no single effective test kit and urges victims to contact police for forensic analysis. It does not commit to requiring warnings on commercial products, expediting the review to a 3-month deadline, or supporting wider adoption after the review.
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