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Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) Drugs Sub-Committee Contact through ACPO - 0171 227 3434 (The present Chair is the Chief Constable of Cumbria_) Police Foundation Secretary - Bill Saulsbury 1 Glyn Street, Vauxhall, London SE11 5RA Tel: 0171 582 3744 Local Government Local councillors Contact through your local library Local Government Drugs Forum 26 Chapter Street London SW1P 4ND Tel: 0171 664 3000 Direct Line: 0171 664 3256/3258 London Drug Policy Forum Tel: 0171 332 3084 Anti-Drugs Co-ordination Unit (ADCU) UK Drug Czar - Keith Hellawell Room 60A/2 Government Buildings, Great George Street, London SW1P 3AL Tel: 0171 270 5776 UK Drug Czar's second in command - Mike Trace Address and number as above Lorraine Rogerson - Director 67/4 Government Buildings, Great George Street, London SW1P 3AL Tel: 0171 270 5850 Central co-ordinating body for formation of drug policy in UK. Acts as a clearing house for all the government departments and non-governmental organisations. Produces statistical indicators for government drug policy, oversees work of Drug Action Teams/Drug Reference Groups. Government Departments Home Office Action Against Drugs Karen Rouse Action Against Drugs - Domestic Policy Section Home Office, 50 Queen Anne’s Gate, London SW1H 9AT Tel: 0171 273 3302 Action Against Drugs - International Policy Section Tony Cooper Action Against Drugs - International Policy Section (Address as above) Tel: 0171 273 2492 Home Office Drug Statistics Tel: 0171 273 3528 Central Drugs Prevention Unit Contact through Home Office Oversees the work of local drug prevention teams UK Parliament Individuals and committees involved in drug policy House of Commons/Lords 0171 219 3000 House of Commons - Public Information 0171 219 4272 Ministerial Drugs Sub-committee Chair – Jack Cunningham MP Contact through your MP International Anti-Drug Co-ordinator Michael Ryder Contact through Foreign Office 4 Matthew Park Street London SW1H 9NL Tel: 0171 210 4167 UK Drug Czar - Keith Hellawell Contact through ADCU (above) Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) Chair - Professor David Grahame-Smith Contact through Action Against Drugs Unit (See above) All Party Parliamentary Group Chair - Vacant (contact through House of Commons) Secretary - Lord Strafford (contact through House of Lords) Local MP, MEP, Councillors Contact through local library Labelling Enquiries TOBACCO ingredients on packaging Gillian Baxendine Health Policy Unit, (Department of Health) Tel: 0171 972 4470 ALCOHOL health warning on packaging Rob Jex Department of Health, Wellington House, 133-155 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8UG Tel: 0171 972 2000 ext. 24161 ALCOHOL ingredients on packaging Keith Gregory Food Labelling Standards Division (MAFF), Room 325D, Ergon House, c/o Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR Tel: 0171 238 6254 OVER THE COUNTER MEDICINES health warnings and ingredients on packaging Steve Brooks Medicines Controls Agency (Home Office), Room 1118B, Market Towers, 1 Nine Elms Lane, London SW8 5NQ Tel: 0171 273 0288 COSMETICS ingredients on packaging Andrew Lummon Community Safety Unit, (Department of Trade and Industry) Tel: 0171 215 0366 Scottish Office Tel: 0171-270 3000 Welsh Office Tel: 0171-270 3000 UK Parliamentary Parties Liberal Party (Not the Lib-Dems) 1A Pine Grove, Southport, Lancs PR9 9AQ Tel: 01704 500115 The Liberals have a drug policy that calls for the end of prohibition and a return to the 'British System'. liberal.org.uk Labour Party Tel: 0171-701 1234 Press: 0171-234 3394 Paul Flynn MP (Outspoken anti-prohibitionist) Tony Banks MP (Minister for Sport - supporter of legalisation of all drugs) Jack Straw MP (Home Secretary) George Howarth MP (Home Affairs - Drugs spokesperson) Tony Blair MP Policy Officers Labour Party John Smith House 150 Walworth Road London SE17 1JT Tel: 0171 277 3403 www.labour.org.uk/ Lib Dems 4 Cowley Street, London, SW1P 3NB, Great Britain Tel: 020 7222 7999 Fax: 020 7799 2170 libdems@cix.co.uk Tel: 0171-222 7999 www.libdems.org.uk/ Conservative Party Tel: 0171-222 9000 Press: 0171-222 0151 www.conservatives.com/ SNP 107 McDonald Road Edinburgh EH7 4NW 0131 525 8900 Tel: 0131-2263661 www.snp.org Plaid Cymru Tel: 01222-231944 www.plaidcymru.org/ Ulster Unionist Party Tel: 01232-324601 UK Unionists Tel: 01247-272994 Sinn Fein Tel: 01232-323214 Social and Democratic Labour Party (SDLP - NI) Tel: 01232-668100 Green Party Tel: 0171-272 4474