HC Deb 06 July 1990 vol 175 cc751-3W
Mr. Sheerman

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many drug finds there have been in each British prison establishment in each of the last 10 years.

Mr. Waddington

The following relates to England and Wales. Responsibility for prison establishments in Scotland rests with my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland. New instructions for the reporting by prison establishments of finds of illicit drugs and related implements took effect on 1 July 1984. Available information about numbers of finds reported since that time is shown in the table. The information for 1984 and 1985 relates to both substances and implements. The figures for subsequent years relate to substances only.

Establishment 11984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 21990
Kingston 1 1 2
Kirkham 6 13 13 56 69
Kirklevington
Lancaster 4 8 4 3 20 15 1
Latchmere House 7 33 10 4 3 6
Leeds 19 12 15 27 23 25 1
Leicester 5 6 13 10 4 18
Lewes 51 18 1 9 13
Leyhill 2 1 2 16 3 4
Lincoln 3 25 9 8 15 32 8
Lindholme 47 39 12
Littlehey 21 23 13
Liverpool 43 121 170 110 96 82 29
Long Lartin 28 54 32 29 35 27 13
Lowdham Grange 5 7 7 4 14 15
Low Newton 7 7 6 11 9 1
Maidstone 15 18 21 37 10 13 2
Manchester 43 87 48 20 42 88 10
Morton Hall 2 4 5 7 7
The Mount 6 31 15
New Hall 3 4 5
Northallerton 2 1 3 3 3 6
Northeye 19 26 4 27 17 20
North Sea Camp 1 2 6 2
Norwich 23 5 18 24 40 53 24
Nottingham 6 4 3 4 5 1
Onley 2 11 7 9 9 26 2
Oxford 4 6 3 5 1
Parkhurst 16 43 39 38 29 80 7
Pentonville 15 30 32 33 50 63 49
Portland 3 2 22 24 2
Preston 7 6 13 22 12 10
Pucklechurch 4 1 7 3 22 8
Ranby 4 5 6 8 14 16 5
Reading 2 9 6 11 26 14 14
Risley 12 23 17 19 19 14 1
Rochester 14 10 31 16 57 27 14
Rudgate 1 3 13 10 11 17 8
Send 1 2 15 16 5
Shepton Mallet 10 2 10 20 15 13 11
Shrewsbury 1 4 2 4 9 10 1
Stafford 26 35 21 33 35 42 8
Standford Hill 29 18 16 36 26 11
Stocken 5 2 5 16 11 5
Stoke Heath 6 5 13 5 12 19
Styal 4 2 1 1 1 8 1
Sudbury/Foston Hall 4 17 7 6 15 9 3
Swaleside 4 11 19
Swansea 4 23 3 8 2
Swinfen Hall 3 2 6 8 3
Thorn Cross 15 21 16 24 1
Thorp Arch 5 11 10 12 4
Usk-Prescoed 2 3 4 7 4
The Verne 1 15 2 9 11 10 16
Wakefield 5 15 5 12 11 5 1
Wandsworth 108 359 237 147 267 217 129
Wayland 7 31 26 45 28 16
Wellingborough 1 1 5 6 4 7
Werrington 1 1 1 3
Wetherby 3 2 5 8 6
Whatton 2 7
Winchester 9 5 3 5 33 45 2
Wormwood Scrubs 120 20 195 174 206 238 105
Wymott 10 19 11 41 16 20 16
1 From 1 July.
2 To 31 May.