§ Mr. SteinbergTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners have tested positive through mandatory drug testing in each of the last five years. [143913]
§ Mr. BoatengThe numbers of positive mandatory drug tests recorded in each of the last five years is given in the table.
Year Number of positive MDT results1 1996–97 21,590 1997–98 20,346 1998–99 19,330 1999–2000 17,505 2000–012 11,243 1Includes prisoners testing positive on more than one occasion 2Year to 30 November 2000
§ Mr. SteinbergTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been successfully prosecuted for smuggling drugs into prison in each of the last five years(a) in the UK, (b) at Frankland Prison and (c) at Durham Prison. [143914]
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§ Mr. BoatengFigures for the number of people successfully prosecuted for smuggling drugs into prisons are not recorded centrally. The best available measure is the number of visitors arrested, figures for which are given in the table.
Visitor arrests Frankland Durham National 1996 10 1 1,320 1997 8 21 1,189 1998 3 32 1,114 1999 5 11 830 20001 3 5 492 1Up to 20 December