Heroin Addiction John Mann To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the waiting list times are for (a) residential rehabilitation and (b) treatment for heroin addiction, broken down by DAT area. [113783]------------------------------ |DAT Name | ------------------------------ |Barking and Dagenham | ------------------------------ |Barnet | ------------------------------ |Barnsley | ------------------------------ |Bath and North East Some | ------------------------------ |Bedfordshire | ------------------------------ |Bexley | ------------------------------ |Birmingham | ------------------------------ |Blackburn with Darwen | ------------------------------ |Blackpool | ------------------------------ |Bolton | ------------------------------ |Bournemouth | ------------------------------ |Bracknell Forest | ------------------------------ |Bradford | ------------------------------ |Brent | ------------------------------ |Brighton and Hove | ------------------------------ |Bristol, City of | ------------------------------ |Bromley | ------------------------------ |Buckinghamshire | ------------------------------ |Bury | ------------------------------ |Calderdale | ------------------------------ |Cambridgeshire | ------------------------------ |Camden | ------------------------------ |Cheshire | ------------------------------ |City of London | ------------------------------ |Cornwall and Isles of Scilly| ------------------------------ |Coventry | ------------------------------ |Croydon | ------------------------------ |Cumbria | ------------------------------ |Darlington | ------------------------------ |Derby | ------------------------------ |Derbyshire | ------------------------------ |Devon | ------------------------------ |Doncaster | ------------------------------ |Dorset | ------------------------------ |Dudley | ------------------------------ |Durham | ------------------------------ |Ealing | ------------------------------ |East Riding of Yorkshire | ------------------------------ |East Sussex | ------------------------------ |Enfield | ------------------------------ |Essex | ------------------------------ |Gateshead | ------------------------------ |Gloucestershire | ------------------------------ |Greenwich | ------------------------------ |Hackney | ------------------------------ |Halton | ------------------------------ |Hammersmith and Fulham | ------------------------------ |Hampshire | ------------------------------ |Haringey | ------------------------------ |Harrow | ------------------------------ |Hartlepool | ------------------------------ |Havering | ------------------------------ |Herefordshire | ------------------------------ |Hertfordshire | ------------------------------ |Hillingdon | ------------------------------ |Hounslow | ------------------------------ |Isle of Wight | ------------------------------ |Islington | ------------------------------ Mr. Bob Ainsworth [holding answer 16 May 2003]: Waiting times for residential rehabilitation and the other main types of treatment services in all Drug Action Team (DAT) areas are regularly monitored by the National Treatment Agency (NTA). Waiting times for the treatment of heroin addiction are not recorded separately from waits for other drug problems.The latest available figures are taken from the DAT Annual Returns submitted in April 2003 and reflect the position in December 2002. Initial analysis indicates that average longest waiting time for residential rehabilitation was 7.1 weeks.The following table sets out the waiting times for the main types of treatment in each DAT area. ----------------------------- |Kensington and Chelsea | ----------------------------- |Kent | ----------------------------- |Kingston upon Hull, City of| ----------------------------- |Kingston upon Thames | ----------------------------- |Kirklees | ----------------------------- |Knowsley | ----------------------------- |Lambeth | ----------------------------- |Lancashire | ----------------------------- |Leeds | ----------------------------- |Leicester | ----------------------------- |Leicestershire | ----------------------------- |Lewisham | ----------------------------- |Lincolnshire | ----------------------------- |Liverpool | ----------------------------- |Luton | ----------------------------- |Manchester | ----------------------------- |Medway | ----------------------------- |Merton | ----------------------------- |Middlesbrough | ----------------------------- |Milton Keynes | ----------------------------- |Newcastle upon Tyne | ----------------------------- |Newham | ----------------------------- |Norfolk | ----------------------------- |North East Lincolnshire | ----------------------------- |North Lincolnshire | ----------------------------- |North Somerset | ----------------------------- |North Tyneside | ----------------------------- |North Yorkshire | ----------------------------- |Northamptonshire | ----------------------------- |Northumberland | ----------------------------- |Nottingham | ----------------------------- |Nottinghamshire | ----------------------------- |Oldham | ----------------------------- |Oxfordshire | ----------------------------- |Peterborough | ----------------------------- |Plymouth | ----------------------------- |Poole | ----------------------------- |Portsmouth | ----------------------------- |Reading | ----------------------------- |Redbridge | ----------------------------- |Redcar and Cleveland | ----------------------------- |Richmond upon Thames | ----------------------------- |Rochdale | ----------------------------- |Rotherham | ----------------------------- |Rutland | ----------------------------- |Salford | ----------------------------- |Sandwell | ----------------------------- |Sefton | ----------------------------- |Sheffield | ----------------------------- |Shropshire | ----------------------------- |Slough | ----------------------------- |Solihull | ----------------------------- |Somerset | ----------------------------- |South Gloucestershire | ----------------------------- |South Tyneside | ----------------------------- |Southampton | ----------------------------- |Southend on Sea | ----------------------------- |Southwark | ----------------------------- |St. Helens | ----------------------------- |Staffordshire | ----------------------------- |Stockport | ----------------------------- |Stockton on Tees | ----------------------------- |Stoke on Trent | ----------------------------- |Suffolk | ----------------------------- |Sunderland | ----------------------------- |Surrey | ----------------------------- |Sutton | ----------------------------- |Swindon | ----------------------------- |Tameside | ----------------------------- |Telford and Wrekin | ----------------------------- |Thurrock | ----------------------------- |Torbay | ----------------------------- |Tower Hamlets | ----------------------------- |Trafford | ----------------------------- |Wakefield | ----------------------------- |Walsall | ----------------------------- |Waltham Forest | ----------------------------- |Wandsworth | ----------------------------- |Warrington | ----------------------------- ------------------------ |Warwickshire | ------------------------ |West Berkshire | ------------------------ |West Sussex | ------------------------ |Westminster | ------------------------ |Wigan | ------------------------ |Wiltshire | ------------------------ |Windsor and Maidenhead| ------------------------ |Wirral | ------------------------ |Wokingham | ------------------------ |Wolverhampton | ------------------------ |Worcestershire | ------------------------ |York | ------------------------ |Average | ------------------------