§ Mr. BurnettTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will publish the results of the studies commissioned by the Prison Service relating to the use of mandatory drug testing in prisons conducted by the University of Oxford Centre for Criminological Research and the national addiction centre. [6351]
§ Ms Joyce QuinResults from both the University of Oxford research into staff and prisoner attitudes to drug misuse and mandatory drug testing and the national addiction centre research into patterns and trends of drug misuse revealed by mandatory drug testing are not expected before the spring of 1998. I would expect the results to be published as soon as practicable after that.