Appendix 1

The Members of the Inquiry

VISCOUNTESS RUNCIMAN D.B.E (Chairman)

Member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (1974-95) and Chairman of the Council's Criminal Justice Working Group; Chairman Mental Health Act Commission.

MRS ALISON CHESNEY*

Chief Executive, Cranstoun Drug Services (1992-1998)

MR RUDI FORTSON

Barrister at Law, Middle Temple and author of Misuse of Drugs and Drug Trafficking Offences.

MR JOHN HAMILTON QPM

Chief Constable, Fife Constabulary

MR SIMON JENKINS

Former Editor - The Times

PROFESSOR ALAN MAYNARD

Professor of Economics, University of York, Department of Economics and Related Studies.

MR LEONARD G. MURRAY**

Consultant, Levy and McRae Solicitors, Glasgow

PROFESSOR DAVID NUTT

Head, Mental Health and Psychopharmacology Unit, University of Bristol.

MR DENIS O'CONNOR QPM

Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service

PROFESSOR GEOFFREY PEARSON

Wates Professor of Social Work, Goldsmiths' College.

MR IAN WARDLE

Chief Executive, Lifeline Project Limited.

PROFESSOR SIR BERNARD WILLIAMS

White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford (until 1996); Monroe Deutsch Professor of Philosophy, University of California - Berkeley.

MS ANNETTE ZERA

Principal, Tower Hamlets College, London.

* resigned 18 September 1998
** resigned 12 March 1998