Cannabis: Sentencing
(asked on 12th October 2015) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people are currently detained in UK prisons for cannabis-related offences.
This question was answered on 20th October 2015
As at 30 June 2015 (latest date for which information is available), the number of offenders in prisons in England and Wales for cannabis related offences was 1,363.
Information on Scotland and Northern Ireland are matters for the Scottish Government and Northern Ireland Executive respectively.
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.