We were concerned that the government’s drug strategy made little reference to women.70 Written evidence submitted by the Office of the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner underlined the limited consideration of women and girls in the strategy, and the lack of reference to wider work on women in the criminal justice system.71 This was reinforced by evidence submitted by Dr Fay Dennis of Goldsmiths, University of London, who highlighted that barriers to drug treatment were magnified fo...

We were concerned that the government’s drug strategy made little reference to women.70 Written evidence submitted by the Office of the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner underlined the limited consideration of women and girls in the strategy, and the lack of reference to wider work on women in the criminal justice system.71 This was reinforced by evidence submitted by Dr Fay Dennis of Goldsmiths, University of London, who highlighted that barriers to drug treatment were magnified for those marginalised by gender, sexuality, class and race.72 When asked what was being done to target different cohorts of people taking drugs, the JCDU Type: conclusion | Number: 21 | Response status: accepted Government response: 5.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Target implementation date: April 2025 5.2 The Drug Strategy sets out the government’s overall ambition to ‘monitor impacts across the strategy’s whole system approach to track progress towards better outco