Bob Ainsworth
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Mr Ainsworth
24. To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many of those serving a prison sentence have been treated for heroin addiction.
[Official Report, 23 November 2010, Vol. 519, c. 287W.]
Letter of correction from Mr Nick Herbert:
An error has been identified in the written answer given to the right hon. Member for Coventry North East (Mr Ainsworth) on 23 November 2010. Unfortunately, the answer contained an error relating to the number of heroin users (4,933) that have entered accredited drug treatment programmes in 2009-10. The full answer given was as follows:
Nick Herbert
Of those adults remanded or sentenced in 2009-10, 60,067 had clinical interventions for the management of heroin dependence, and 4,933 heroin users entered accredited drug treatment programmes in custody in the same period.
The correct answer should have been: