Prisons: Drugs

Mr. Mullin
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners were placed on detoxification programmes for drug misuse in each of the last three years.

Mr. Sutcliffe
The following table indicates the number of entrants to prison detoxification and drug maintenance programmes for the years 2001-02 to 2005-06. Full year figures for 2006-07 are not yet available.

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|      |Entrants|
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|2003-4|57,891  |
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|2004-5|53,903  |
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|2005-6|53,773  |
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These data have been extracted from the Prison Service PSimon database.