- Like Anti-drug education where, as figures we released this week showed, 75% of primary and 93% of secondary schools now have anti-drugs education policies (up from 60% and 86% in 1997).

- And young peoples’ projects like Positive Futures which uses sports like football and basketball (e.g. Kick-Start in Southwark and Reach for Success on Teesside) to help build up confidence and self-esteem among young people to stay off drugs.

- Much of the money to support projects like Positive Futures is coming from the Confiscated Assets Fund which takes money seized from drug dealers and traffickers - £5m this year, £7m next year - and puts it back into anti-drugs projects like Positive Futures or the Communities Project to support parents groups in working to promote the anti-drugs message.

- One third of all property crime is committed by people on drugs; the best way to wean people off drugs permanently is through anti-drugs treatment; we know that treatment works in helping keep people permanently off drugs. So expanding anti-drug treatment is a crucial way to help combat addiction and reduce crime.

- That is why there will be an extra £94m for drug treatment services next year which should enable us to treat something like 30,000 more and help us make real progress in closing the gap between the numbers who are now receiving help and those who we estimate need treatment.

- The good news is that we have seen a steady increase in the numbers coming forward for treatment. The latest figures show an increase of about 7% last year.

- Last year thanks to co-ordinated work by police, customs and other agencies over a £1b worth of Class A drugs was seized - an increase of over one third on the year before.

- The drugs trade doesn’t respect national boundaries which is why we work closer than ever with other European agencies. A total of 43 tonnes of cocaine and 14 tonnes of heroin were seized in the last recorded year.

- We mustn’t forget the impact on many poorer countries where drugs are produced - I was in Colombia recently where the drugs trade is fuelling the conflict there and causing horrendous damage to the environment and to local people.

- One example of what we are doing - we are working with other European countries to support local alternative development projects in Colombia to help provide peasant farmers with an living without having to grow drugs.

- to provide a clear overview of the issues surrounding the delivery of drug prevention and drug services to ethnic minority communities; and

- to identify specific issues and prioritise areas of work that require further attention through the development of pilot projects.

- working with DrugScope and DPAS to make progress on guidance and benchmarking for drugs service providers;

- looking into the recruitment and retention of black drug workers;