Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many drug seizures for each illegal substance there were in each prison in each of the last four years.

The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) takes the issue of all contraband in prisons extremely seriously and deploys a comprehensive range of robust searching and security measures to detect items of contraband both at the point of entry to the prison and concealed within the prison. We do not tolerate drugs in prison and anyone caught with them will be punished and could face further prosecution.

A table showing the number of drug finds in each prison in England and Wales in the period requested has been placed in the House Library

Please be aware that all figures have been drawn from live administrative data systems which may be amended at any time. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system. The data are not subject to audit.