Written question asked by John Bercow (Conservative) on Friday, 4 November 2005, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 8 November 2005. It was answered by Lord Coaker (Labour) on Monday, 4 September 2006 on behalf of the Home Office.

Drug Intervention Programme

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the results of the pilots in five areas of the Drug Intervention Programme.

Answer: The hon. Member originally raised this question on 7 November 2005. Given that there were no pilots in any "five areas of the Drug Interventions Programme" it was agreed that the question would be withdrawn and re-tabled. The re-tabled question was answered on 6 February 2006 and I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 6 February 2006, Official Report, column 937W. I am now pleased to give the hon. Member the latest position on numbers into treatment. Since the introduction of the Drug Interventions Programme (DIP) in April 2003, over 48,000 drug misusing offenders have entered treatment through DIP (May 2006). We are on track to achieve the overall target of 1,000 offenders a week into treatment by 2008 and we exceeded the interim (March 2005) target by 54 per cent.

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