§ Mrs. Curtis-ThomasTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have received 219W drug treatment in prison in each year since 1997 as a percentage of (a) the prison population and (b) the total demand. [182303]
§ Paul GogginsThe information requested is as follows:
(a) People in prison receiving drug treatment as a percentage of those received into prison annually since 2001 (the first year in which drug treatment figures were collected) is given in the following table.
Percentage of the prison population that have received drug treatment since 2001 based on estimated annual receptions into custody 20011 2002 2003 Clinical Services (Detoxification) 21 36 42 CARATs 21 35 40 Treatment programmes 2 3 3 1Excluding January—March 2001 from which data is not collated. Note: Population figures for 2003 are provisional (b) The Prison Service does not collate figures centrally on the demand for drug treatment.