HC Deb 25 November 1999 vol 339 c181W
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what national initiatives have been introduced to reduce drug-related crime in each year since 1992. [98595]

Mr. Charles Clarke

National initiatives to reduce drug-related crime introduced since 1997 include the piloting of the new Drug Treatment and Testing Order, for which around £60 million has been earmarked for national roll-out next year, an additional £76 million over the next three years for tackling drug misuse in prisons and up to £20 million over the next three years to promote the development of arrest referral schemes to get drug misusing offenders into treatment.

No information is available on initiatives prior to that date.

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the initiatives taken between 1992 and 1997 on Merseyside to reduce drug-related crime. [98592]

Mr. Charles Clarke

A record of the initiatives that have been taken on Merseyside between 1992 and 1997 to reduce drug-related crime is not held centrally.

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