§ Mr. HoyleTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 7 February,Official Report, column 184, on mandatory drugs testing, if he will list how many added days were restored to prisoners appealing for restoration of remission lost during sentences. [20185]
§ Miss WiddecombeResponsibility for this matter has been delegated to the temporary Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Richard Tilt to Mr. Doug Hoyle, dated 13 March 1996.
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question, further to his answer of 7 February, Official Report, column 184, asking for the number of added days restored for offences of unauthorised use of a controlled drug and refusing to provide a sample for drug testing.
Information on the number of added days remitted to prisoners on their application is not collected centrally. However, an investigation of a sample of prisoners who received added days in 1994 for any offence against prison discipline showed that an estimated 1 in 6 added days were remitted.
Numbers of samples confirmed positive for cannabis and class A drugs in seven male establishments, February to December 1995 Bristol Feltham Lindholme Pentonville C1 A2 C1 A2 C1 A2 C1 A2 February 14 4 26 0 3— 3— 8 0 March 12 0 20 0 19 0 25 4 April 16 1 11 0 3 0 24 9 May 14 2 16 0 7 1 14 2 June 15 1 14 0 4 4 23 1 July 13 1 21 0 3 0 23 5 August 14 0 11 0 3— 3— 1 0 September 8 0 12 0 13 l 14 6 October 13 2 12 0 9 2 19 13 November 19 6 17 1 19 8 47 7 December 4 1 14 0 24 7 29 11 636W
Stoke Heath Wakefield Wayland C1 A2 C1 A2 C 1 A2 February 5 0 0 0 17 1 March 7 0 13 0 15 2 April 5 0 19 0 23 1 May 2 0 16 0 5 1 June 4 0 9 0 23 2 July 5 0 19 3 31 4 August 6 0 6 0 15 2 September 4 0 7 0 10 2 October 0 0 12 1 22 6 November 0 0 11 1 2 5 December 8 1 11 1 20 3 1Cannabis. 2class A drugs 3No tests performed that month.
§ Mr. HoyleTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many random drugs tests were carried out in the male prisons in the random mandatory drugs testing pilot study; and of these tests for each of the months from February to December 1995, how many proved positive for(a) cannabis only and (b) class A drugs only. [20448]
§ Miss WiddecombeResponsibility for this matter has been delegated to the temporary Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Richard Tilt to Mr. Doug Hoyle, dated 13 March 1996.
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the number of random drug tests and the numbers of prisoners testing positive for cannabis and class A drugs.
During the four month initial programme of mandatory drug testing, drug tests were carried out on 1,029 male prisoners. From June until December last year a further 2,010 tests were carried out on prisoners in the initial seven male establishments.
The attached table shows the number of confirmed positive tests for cannabis and for class A drugs in each of the seven male establishments. Because of the way in which the statistics are collected, it is not possible to subtract from these figures samples which were positive for both cannabis and class A drugs.
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