Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 190341

Prisons: Drugs

Tabled: 20 June 2023
Answered: 27 June 2023

Question

Steve Reed

Labour (Co-op)Streatham and Croydon North

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of tackling substance misuse in prisons in each year since 2010.

Answer

The information requested is not separately identifiable due to the way services are commissioned across the secure and detained estate.