To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 15 March 2007, Official Report, column 552W, on prisons: drugs, whether the funding announced for the Integrated Drug Treatment System will be ring-fenced. (138391)

The investment allocated by the Department for the Integrated Drug Treatment System (IDTS) is not ring-fenced.

The allocation contains specific amounts targeted to those primary care trusts which contain prisons implementing IDTS.