Drugs: Rehabilitation

(asked on 13th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Drug Rehabilitation Requirements have been (a) commenced and (b) completed in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 18th June 2019

Information on commencements is published in table A4.8 of the document entitled “Probation: 2018” in the Offender Management Statistics Quarterly for October-December 2018. It can be accessed at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2018

Data on completions are available for the years 2013 onwards and are shown in the table below:

Drug Rehabilitation Requirement (DRR) Completions, 2013-18

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

7160

7333

6619

5671

4751

3897

The purpose of the drug rehabilitation requirement is to reduce or eliminate illicit drug use and associated offending. Offenders are required to attend appointments with the treatment provider and to submit to regular drug testing. They are also required to attend appointments with, or arranged by, their offender manager.

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