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Drugs

Volume 175: debated on Friday 6 July 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many drug finds there have been in each British prison establishment in each of the last 10 years.

The following relates to England and Wales. Responsibility for prison establishments in Scotland rests with my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland. New instructions for the reporting by prison establishments of finds of illicit drugs and related implements took effect on 1 July 1984. Available information about numbers of finds reported since that time is shown in the table. The information for 1984 and 1985 relates to both substances and implements. The figures for subsequent years relate to substances only.

Establishment

11984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

21990

Kingston112
Kirkham613135669
Kirklevington
Lancaster484320151
Latchmere House73310436
Leeds1912152723251
Leicester561310418
Lewes51181913
Leyhill2121634
Lincoln3259815328
Lindholme473912
Littlehey212313
Liverpool43121170110968229
Long Lartin28543229352713
Lowdham Grange57741415
Low Newton7761191
Maidstone1518213710132
Manchester43874820428810
Morton Hall24577
The Mount63115
New Hall345
Northallerton213336
Northeye19264271720
North Sea Camp1262
Norwich2351824405324
Nottingham643451
Onley211799262
Oxford46351
Parkhurst1643393829807
Pentonville15303233506349
Portland3222242
Preston7613221210
Pucklechurch4173228
Ranby456814165
Reading29611261414
Risley1223171919141
Rochester14103116572714
Rudgate13131011178
Send1215165
Shepton Mallet1021020151311
Shrewsbury14249101
Stafford2635213335428
Standford Hill291816362611
Stocken52516115
Stoke Heath651351219
Styal4211181
Sudbury/Foston Hall417761593
Swaleside41119
Swansea423382
Swinfen Hall32683
Thorn Cross152116241
Thorp Arch51110124
Usk-Prescoed23474
The Verne11529111016
Wakefield5155121151
Wandsworth108359237147267217129
Wayland73126452816
Wellingborough115647
Werrington1113
Wetherby32586
Whatton27
Winchester953533452
Wormwood Scrubs12020195174206238105
Wymott10191141162016

1 From 1 July.

2 To 31 May.