Guidance

Controlled drugs: annual statistical returns guidance

Guidance for licence holders on the annual statistical returns process and terminology.

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Annual statistical returns: guidance notes

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Annex A: INCB definitions

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If you are a wholesaler, manufacturer, producer or supplier of controlled drugs, you must supply the Home Office with annual statistical returns.

The guidance above gives information on the annual returns process for controlled substances in the UK.

Definitions of terminology from the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) are also available above to help you with the returns process.

Further information

More information about the annual statistical returns process and application forms is also available.

Published 26 March 2013
Last updated 21 December 2020 + show all updates
  1. Updated annual returns to December 2020 edition.

  2. Updated guidance published.

  3. First published.