Prisons: Drugs
(asked on 20th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department plans to test waste water from prisons for illegal substances.
This question was answered on 24th November 2017
In the Prison Safety and Reform White paper published in November 2016, the Ministry of Justice committed to strengthen measures to enhance our drug testing regime in prisons, this included increasing the frequency and range of drugs tested for. Waste water testing is one of the options under consideration alongside other innovative technologies.