HC Deb 09 January 2002 vol 377 c897W
Mr. Stincheombe

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the total number of days added to sentences on the basis of positive mandatory drug tests on prisoners was in each of the last five years for(a) cannabis, (b) opiates, (c) cocaine and (d) benzodiazepines. [24282]

Beverley Hughes

Statistics on numbers of days added to sentence by different drug type are not collated centrally. The total number of added days awarded for prisoners found guilty of unauthorised use of a controlled drug are set out as follows:

Number added days
1996 106,942
1997 106,824
1998 107,517
1999 103,786
2000 100,801

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