§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will state what the total weekly drugs bill is for psychotropic drugs in each prison in England and Wales;
(2) if he will state how many prisoners in each prison are regularly receiving psychotropic drugs;
(3) what quantities of the following drugs are supplied weekly to the prison 5W medical services in England and Wales: Modecate, Depixol, Largactil, Melleril, Neulactil and Librium, respectively.
§ Dr. Summerskill:Information of this kind is not collected centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. My noble Friend the Minister of State has written to my hon. Friend informing him of the Department's plans for collecting information about the use of drugs by the prison medical service.