§ Mr. Ieuan Wyn JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the total number of registered drug addicts in each local authority area in Wales in each year from 1987 onwards.
§ Mr. Gwilym JonesThe numbers of drug addicts notified by medical practitioners to the chief medical officer at the Home Office are given in "Statistics of Drug Addicts Notified to the Home Office, UK, 1991" which is held in the Library of the House. Figures for each district health authority in Wales from 1987 to 1991 are found in table A8 of the "Area Tables" supplement.
§ Mr. Ieuan Wyn JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales what information he has concerning the use of designer drugs within schools in each local education authority area in Wales.
§ Sir Wyn RobertsThis information is not collected centrally.
§ Mr. Ieuan Wyn JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales what efforts are currently made by his Department to collect information on the numbers of unregistered drug addicts in Wales.
§ Mr. Gwilym JonesThe Welsh drug misuse database was set up in 1991 to provide regular national and local profiles on those drug users in contact with various services. Some of those drug users will be registered on the addicts index while others will be unregistered.
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