Pre-release access list for: Seizures of drugs in England and Wales, financial year ending 2025
Published 12 February 2026
Applies to England and Wales
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Colleagues given access to finalised publication, embargoed, for information (24 hours in advance of publication).
In addition to the Chief Statistician and staff in the Drugs, Exploitation and Abuse Analysis Unit responsible for the production and quality assurance of these statistics, the following persons were given pre-release access to these statistics 24 hours in advance of release:
Home Office
- Home Secretary
- Minister of State (Minister for Policing and Crime)
- Minister of State (Minister for Security)
- Minister of State (Minister for Border Security and Asylum)
- Minister for Migration and Citizenship
- Permanent Secretary
- Special Advisers (1)
- Director General, Public Safety Group
- Director General, Digital and Innovation
- Director, International Serious and Organised Crime
- Director, Home Office Analysis and Insight Directorate
- Deputy Head of Statistics
- Policy Officials, Targeted Interventions Unit (1)
- Policy Officials, Drugs and Alcohol Unit (1)
- Policy Officials, International Serious and Organised Crime (3)
- Border Force Operational Tasking and Coordination (2)
- Border Force Performance and Analysis Unit (1)
- Press Officers, Policing Desk (1)
- Borders Communications Team (3)
In addition, Private Secretaries in the Ministers’ and Special Advisers’ Private Offices will have access to pre-release figures for handling arrangements.
Pre-release access was also given to the following persons from outside the Home Office 24 hours in advance of release:
External
- National Crime Agency Commodities and Borders, Senior Manager (1)