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Prisons

Volume 455: debated on Thursday 11 January 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the likely cost to the public purse of changes to television sets in prisons as a result of digital switchover. (108004)

Plans for the digital switchover of the prison estate are being tested but have not yet been finalised. However, it is anticipated that the bulk of the cost will be met from the weekly charge paid by prisoners for the rental of televisions.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of prisoners with mental health problems were released into the community with supported housing in the last 12 months. (113603)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what most recent estimate he has made of the number of prisoners who have taken drugs in the year before entering prison; (113619)

(2) what his most recent estimate is of the number of prisoners who continue illegal drug use after release.

Information on the number of prisoners using drugs before or after custodial sentences is not collated centrally.