§ Lord Acknerasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many offenders have been convicted on a third occasion of a Class A drug trafficking offence in each of the last three years.
§ Baroness BlatchThe information requested is not collected routinely and data for each of the last three years are not available. On the basis of an analysis of all offenders convicted of drug trafficking offences during a three-month period in 1994, we estimate that around 120 of those convicted of Class A drug trafficking offences in 1994 had two or more previous convictions for similar offences.