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Recommendation 40
40
Accepted in Part
Extend Project ADDER nationally or preserve progress in pilot locations post-2025 conclusion.
Recommendation
We recommend that Project ADDER be extended across all of England and Wales if the assessments indicate that the Project is effect in achieving all of its aims: reducing drug-related deaths, drug-related offending, drug use, and disrupting the supply and trafficking of drugs. If the Government does not extend Project ADDER beyond the pilot phase, we recommend that it must make clear how it will preserve the progress made in the existing 13 pilot locations beyond 2025. (Paragraph 141) Drugs 77 Health-led harm reduction
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The government partially accepts the recommendation, deferring a decision on extending Project ADDER until after the 2025 evaluation, but commits to being clear on how progress will be preserved in existing pilot locations beyond 2025, through mechanisms like Combating Drugs Partnerships.
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Government Response
Accepted in Part
HM Government · verbatim extract
Accepted in Part
Project ADDER was mobilised in Autumn 2020 to test innovative new approaches to tackling drugs misuse. Over the remaining two years (FY2023/24 and FY 2024/2025) of Project ADDER funding we aim to build sustainability into delivery and deepen our evidence base of what works across a multi-agency approach. Beyond 2025, our vision is to build on the ADDER approach through the delivery of the Drug Strategy’s Combating Drugs Partnerships nationally. The Government accepts the Committee’s recommendation on preserving ADDER’s progress, and we will continue to work closely with the Joint Combatting Drugs Unit on embedding and expanding on good practice nationally. An evidence base for a safe consumption facility in the UK is needed. (Paragraph 149)
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