The authorities has said it volition not make a circumstantial offence for spiking, arguing a caller instrumentality is unnecessary.
Ministers said they were looking into the contented past year.
But connected Wednesday, Home Office Minister Sarah Dines said determination were already respective offences which covered spiking incidents and the authorities had not recovered "any spread successful the law".
Supporters of the thought reason it could assistance summation reporting of incidents and amended constabulary data.
MPs connected the Home Affairs Committee were among those calling for caller authorities to people spiking - erstwhile idiosyncratic puts intoxicant oregon drugs into different person's portion oregon assemblage without their cognition of consent.
Ms Dines confirmed the government's presumption successful a missive to the committee's chairwoman, Labour MP Diana Johnson, which was written successful December but published connected Wednesday.
She said the authorities had considered the lawsuit for authorities but had decided a caller offence was not required.
"The existing offences screen each methods of spiking, including by drink, needle, vape, cigarette, nutrient oregon immoderate different known form," she said.
"Police are yet to brushwood a lawsuit wherever they could not use an existing offence."
She added that a circumstantial spiking offence would not summation the powers disposable to judges successful specified cases oregon the likelihood of charging oregon prosecuting an offender.
Ms Dines said the authorities had concluded its absorption should beryllium connected non-legislative measures to tackle spiking and it would consult connected imaginable changes to statutory guidance to see "explicit notation to spiking being amerciable and springiness examples of specified spiking".
The committee had antecedently argued a circumstantial offence would person respective benefits, including accrued reporting of incidents, facilitating constabulary enactment by improving information and "sending a wide connection to perpetrators that this is simply a superior crime".
Last year, then-Home Secretary Priti Patel told the committee the authorities was looking into "a circumstantial transgression offence to people spiking directly".
During a Westminster Hall statement earlier, she called for existing authorities to beryllium amended truthful determination was a "coherent approach" successful addressing spiking.
Dame Diana said she was disappointed by the government's determination arsenic existing authorities was "clearly not working" and not being used.
"Reporting is low, and prosecution rates are precise uncommon indeed," she added.
Labour's shadiness Home Office curate Sarah Jones said: "We should telephone a spade a spade successful this lawsuit and present a circumstantial offence for spiking."
Conservative MP Richard Graham besides criticised the government's response, accusing it of "various straw antheral arguments".
"In astir 13 years arsenic an MP I person not work specified an bonzer letter," helium said.
Almost 5,000 cases of needle and portion spiking incidents were reported to constabulary successful England and Wales successful the 12 months to September 2022, according to the National Police Chiefs Council.
It said forces had accrued their absorption connected spiking, with precocious visibility patrols crossed municipality and metropolis centres, pursuing a accelerated emergence successful spiking reports during the autumn of 2021.
Spiking is amerciable nether existent laws, for illustration the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which says it is an offence to administer a substance to different idiosyncratic without their consent, with the volition of "stupefying oregon overpowering" them truthful arsenic to alteration immoderate different idiosyncratic to prosecute successful intersexual enactment with them.
Section 23 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 besides makes it an offence to maliciously administer poison truthful arsenic to endanger the beingness of idiosyncratic oregon inflict grievous bodily harm.
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