Written question asked by Mike Hancock (Liberal Democrat) on Monday, 7 November 2005, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 9 November 2005. It was answered by Lord Touhig (Labour) on Thursday, 10 November 2005 on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.

HMS Nelson

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many times HMS Nelson has been subject to random drug testing in each of the last three years; and what the results were.

Answer

The dates, numbers and results of Naval personnel who underwent random drug testing at HMS Nelson are as follows:

	Date	Location	Tested	Positive
2003	22 July	RM Band Portsmouth	54	0
2003	2 October	HMS Nelson	189	0
2004	21 April	RM School of Music	83	0
2004	9 November	HMS Nelson	188	0
2005	12 May	RM School of Music	44	0
2005	2 June	RM School of Music	10	0
2005	10 August	Nelson UPO	32	0
2005	25 October	Nelson PTIs and RN Boxing Team	47	0
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