To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what progress has been made on the development of a National Intelligence Model to enable the National Offender Management Service to disrupt the supply of illicit drugs into prisons. (316189)

The National Offender Management Service is preparing revised guidance on the management and use of intelligence in prisons. While not meeting the specific technical criteria of a National Intelligence Model, it describes key strategic tools and processes for the effective gathering, analysis and action from intelligence. On the specific issue of addressing illicit drug supply, a range of measures in combination disrupt the supply of drugs into prisons. The level of drug misuse in prisons as measured by mandatory drug testing has declined by 68 per cent. since 1996-97.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people in each of the 10 (a) most and (b) least deprived local authority areas have (i) undertaken drug treatment programmes and (ii) been convicted of (A) alcohol-related offences and (B) violent crimes in each of the last five years. (317769)

The available information from the Department of Health is shown in the following tables, showing the number of adults in drug treatment by year in the top 10 most and least deprived partnerships:

The Ministry of Justice does not hold data on convictions by local authority area.

In addition, to show the volume of persons who have been convicted of such offences and undertaken drug treatment could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Further information on deprivation and crime is available from the Office of National Statistics’ Neighbourhood Statistics website:

http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/