Prisons (Drugs)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 20 Mawrth 1997.

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Photo of Ann Widdecombe Ann Widdecombe , Maidstone 12:00, 20 Mawrth 1997

Drug testing now takes place in all our prisons, and has done since April 1996. My hon. Friend is right that it is essential to back up that testing by giving prisoners strategies and alternatives to using drugs and the ability to come off them.