asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why, and on how many occasions, drugs have been administered to 16-year-old remand prisoner K56084 in Her Majesty's Prison, Norwich; which drugs have been used; and what consultations have taken place with the local authority in whose care the prisoner had been placed by Peterborough magistrates' courts.

The prisoner in question, who is located in the prison hospital, was given a sedative on one occasion when the medical officer considered that his behaviour was so disturbed as to be a danger to himself and to others. There has been consultation between the local authority social services and the prison medical authorities about the preparation of medical reports on the prisoner.