Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 23903

Prisons: Drugs

Tabled: 26 April 2024
Answered: 8 May 2024

Question

Rachael Maskell

Labour (Co-op)York Central

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of (a) drug use and (b) synthetic drug use in prisons.

Answer

Edward Argar
The latest information on random mandatory drug testing in prisons can be found in the HMPPS Annual Digest here: HMPPS Annual Digest, April 2022 to March 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).All prisons have a zero-tolerance approach to drugs, and we are highly awa...

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