§ Mr. MichaelTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list the cases in which offenders have been convicted for the third or subsequent occasion of dealing in class A drugs in the past two years; [6687]
(2) how many individuals have been convicted of their third offence of dealing in class A drugs in each of the past five years. [6688]
§ Mr. MacleanThe information requested is not collected routinely and data for individual years and cases are not available. On the basis of an analysis of all offenders convicted of drug trafficking offences during a three-month period in 1994, we estimate that around470W 120 of those convicted of class A drug trafficking offences in 1994 had two or more previous convictions for similar offences.