HC Deb 20 January 1988 vol 125 cc706-7W
Mr. Butler

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will construct a table showing the average number of doses of drugs administered per inmate in each of Her Majesty's penal establishments in the latest available year;

(2) what were (a) the categories and (b) the numbers of individual doses of drugs administered to inmates at (i) Her Majesty's prison, Liverpool and (ii) Her Majesty's prison, Manchester.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

The following table provides the available information in respect of the financial year 1986–87 for establishments served by more than one medical officer. Establishments in which medical services were largely provided by a single doctor are omitted in keeping with the long established policy of not publishing information relating to the prescribing practice of individual doctors.

Number of Doses of Medicine Administered to Inmates in Prison Service Establishments in England and Wales 1 April 1986 to 31 March 1987
Prescription only Medicines
Establishment Medicines available without prescription in the community Psychotropic drugs (ie antidepressants, sedatives and tranquillisers) Hypnotic drugs Drugs acting on the central nervous system other than those shown in cols. (2) and (3) Other drugs and medicines
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
HMP Birmingham 153,859 23,051 3,830 25,715 96,048
HMP Bristol 84,805 15,900 690 8,702 57,465
HMP Brixton 208,806 64,118 12,312 41,576 179,814
HMP Canterbury 16,986 11,329 5,484 13,313 24,783
HMP Cardiff 73,504 7,031 1,040 7,031 58,118
HMP Dartmoor 99,262 25,792 3,501 33,621 37,734
HMP Durham 90,120 13,308 2,471 25,386 61,269
HMP Gartree 53,393 16,396 9,880 3,813 30,813
HMYCC Glen Parva 33,486 10,272 3,603 13,206 74,974
HMP Grendon 96,237 17,954 3,090 18,009 40,718
HMP Holloway 120,884 77,841 21,911 28,237 132,079
HMP Hull 61,705 6,728 820 6,655 45,006
HMP Leeds 139,070 20,629 655 68,628 79,843
HMP Leicester 57,556 18,638 1,694 6,828 27,658
HMP Lincoln 41,456 13,162 700 11,906 30,795
HMP Liverpool 100,419 23,951 2,624 39,767 78,557
HMP Maidstone 99,680 16,220 3,200 44,080 49,580
HMP Manchester 109,087 19,023 1,858 30,409 60,317
HMP Norwich1 100,564 20,540 3,268 21,320 68,608
HMP Parkhurst 76,846 44,974 6,258 33,994 37,107
HMP Pentonville 112,801 20,863 1,504 20,185 90,583
HMRC Risley 162,100 24,814 9,223 22,667 68,345
HMP Wakefield 304,861 72,897 18,379 82,566 478,876
HMP Wandsworth 248,160 39,364 3,324 30,504 110,899
HMP Winchester 112,587 22,410 2,798 44,206 55,351
1 Footnote: The figures for HMP Norwich are estimated as the returns from this establishment are incomplete. No information is available for HM Remand Centre Ashford, HM Youth Custody Centre Feltham, or HM Prisons Long Lartin and Wormwood Scrubs.