Prisons: Drugs

(asked on 6th July 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the prison establishments that currently run drug treatment programmes for inmates with addictions; and what estimate he has made of the annual cost of running such programmes.


Answered by
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Ben Gummer
This question was answered on 13th July 2016

All prisons in England are required to have drug treatment programmes for inmates with addictions.

NHS England has allocated approximately £405 million for health expenditure in the adult prison estate in 2016/17, with spending on substance misuse services expected to amount to approximately 20% of this.

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