§ Mr. HansonTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many drug addicts were notified in Wales in each of the last five years.
§ Mr. RichardsThe information requested is given in table A3 of the Home Office statistical bulletin "Statistics of Drug Addicts notified to the Home Office, United Kingdom 1993"—area tables.
§ Mr. HansonTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the total amounts of money spent over the last five years by his Department on the prevention of drug abuse.
§ Mr. RichardsThe following table gives the information requested as far as it is available. The figures shown are totals for the prevention of drug and alcohol abuse: it is not possible to disaggregate the amount spent on prevention of drug abuse.
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Year A £ B £ 1989–90 1— — 1990–91 1— —
Year A £ B £ 1991–92 246,712 — 1992–93 298,129 43,275 1993–94 354,193 19,500 1Not available. In addition to the sums in column A, the Department has made available the additional moneys shown in column B for specific prevention projects such as European drug prevention week and the Wales sixth form conference.
§ Mr. HansonTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many drug addicts were newly notified in Wales in each of the past five years.
§ Mr. RichardsThe information requested is given in table A 1 of the Home Office statistical bulletin "Statistics of Drug Addicts notified to the Home Office, United Kingdom 1993"—area tables.
§ Mr. HansonTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales what action his Department has taken to promote and mark European drug prevention week this year.
§ Mr. RichardsThe Department undertook a range of actions to promote and mark European drug prevention week this year.
A comprehensive programme of events in Wales for European drug prevention week has been placed in the Library of the House.