Motherwell and Wishaw MP Marion Fellows secured a pledge from the Tory minister that will allow a potentially lifesaving drugs consumption room (DCR) pilot plan to go ahead.
A Lanarkshire MP has clashed with Scottish Secretary Alister Jack in a Commons debate on drugs policy just weeks after the latest figures showed deaths in Scotland are three times higher than the UK average.
It comes just days after Scots Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain said she will not seek prosecutions for anyone using DCRs.Latest figures show a fall in drugs deaths in Scotland - and in Lanarkshire - but deaths are still tragically high. The Scottish Secretary said: ”The UK government believes that the police and the Procurator Fiscal Service should fully enforce the law.”
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