Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in prison in England and Wales (a) requested and (b) received drug and alcohol treatment in each quarter for the last five years.

Secure setting treatment figures are currently only available for 2015-16. Figures are not available for people who requested treatment, only for those starting or already receiving treatment.

Data in secure setting statistics from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System for England showed there were 60,254 adults in contact with drug and alcohol treatment services within secure settings during 2015-16, and most (56,803) of these were within a prison setting:

http://www.nta.nhs.uk/uploads/secure-setting-statistics-from-the-national-drug-treatment-monitoring-system-2015-2016.pdf

There were a further 3,124 in contact with treatment services within Youth Offending Institutions and 327 within Immigration Removal Centres.

Of all the people in contact with treatment services in secure settings in this year, there were 40,382 people starting a new treatment programme.