HC Deb 27 July 1989 vol 157 c796W
Mr. Bermingham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the total number of prisoners in England and Wales who have been sentenced to a period of custody for a drug-related offence; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

The latest readily available information, for 30 June 1988, was published in table 8 of "The Prison Population in 1988" (Home Office statistical bulletin, issue 12/89), a copy of which is in the Library.