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Calls backed for European-style shooting galleries where addicts can take their own heroin
Experts say the rooms can help cut both drug related deaths and offending
16:14, 16 MAR 2021
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European-style drug rooms where users can take illicit substances have been backed by a Teesside panel.
UK Government ended Erasmus because it was too European, claims Lochhead
Updated: January 28, 2021, 2:41 pm
The minister said the UK Government had been due to continue with Erasmus ‘until the last moment’ (Fraser Bremner/Scottish Daily Mail/PA)
The UK Government shut down the chance of continuing the Erasmus programme because it was “too European”, a Scottish minister has claimed.
The education exchange programme was one of the casualties of the Brexit process, but Scotland and Wales are continuing to push for access to it.
The UK Government has announced a replacement scheme, named after famed mathematician Alan Turing.
Speaking to Westminster’s Scottish Affairs Committee, Scotland’s further and higher education minister Richard Lochhead said: “The UK Government’s official line is that it’s not value for money.
Drug ‘shooting gallery’ operators could be sued by users, warns UK Govt
Drug ‘shooting gallery’ operators could be sued by users, warns UK Govt
29 Dec 2020
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A UK Government minister has highlighted the possible consequences for operators if drug consumption rooms (DCRs) are legalised in Scotland.
Kit Malthouse, Minister of State for Crime and Policing, has told the Westminster Scottish Affairs Committee that operators could be sued by users and families “were things to go wrong” on their premises.
Earlier this year, Westminster made its opposition to ‘fixing rooms’ clear. It said: “We have no plans to introduce drug consumption rooms in the UK. Anyone running them would be committing a range of offences.”