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Drug Convictions

Volume 950: debated on Thursday 18 May 1978

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asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many convictions for the possession of (a) cannabis resin and its derivatives and (b) other drugs have been made in United Kingdom courts during each of the last three years.

Information in the form requested is not available except at disproportionate cost. The information available is given in the following table. Some of the persons shown in the table may have been convicted both of unlawful possession of, and of possession with intent to supply unlawfully, a controlled drug. Figures for 1977 are not yet available.

The ratio of prison officers to inmates on 31st December 1977 was 1:5·97 at Her Majesty's Prison, Sudbury and 1:5·75 at all open prisons in England and Wales.