HC Deb 13 November 1985 vol 86 cc177-8W
Mr. Cohen

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give for 1984 the total number of doses of drugs administered to prisoners, the number of prisoners receiving those doses and a breakdown of such dosage by prisoner's sex.

Mr. Mellor

The numbers of doses of medicines (of all categories) recorded in prison pharmacies as having been administered to inmate patients in the year ended 31 December 1984 are:

Numbers
Establishments for males 8,580,014
Establishments for females 925,472
TOTAL 9,505,486

The number of patients to whom the medicines were administered is not recorded.