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Written question asked by Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat), in the House of Lords. It was answered by Baroness Scotland of Asthal (Labour) on Monday, 19 December 2005.

Drug and Alcohol Treatment: Residential Services

Question
How many residential places for drug and alcohol treatment and maintenance will be available nationally and by region, for men and women respectively, for persons serving the non-custodial part of a custody plus sentence, when this provision comes into force.
Answer

There are presently 122 residential treatment centres for adult drug and alcohol misusers in England and Wales with a total of 2,595 beds. A breakdown by region and gender is shown in the table below.

Region Number of centres Total number of beds Number of male only beds Number of female only beds
North-east 4 110 28 9
North-west 19 320 79 49
Yorkshire and
      Humberside 8 176 24 12
East Midlands 4 49 6 6
West Midlands 3 51 24 4
East of England 6 148 6 25
London 21 453 71 28
South-east 25 546 135 18
South-west 28 695 211 112
Wales 4 47 12
Total 1221 2,5952 5843 2754
Further information is available from the National Treatment Agency’s online residential treatment directory. The Department of Health and National Treatment Agency have plans to increase the number of beds from 2006-07 but it is not possible to say 1 Nine are drug only and 11 alcohol only. 2 116 are drug only and 188 alcohol only. 3 38 are drug only and four alcohol only. 4 Six are drug only and four alcohol only.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
1984; 676 c210WA
Session
2005-06
Subjects
Alcoholic drinks Women Drugs Economic regions Offenders Misuse Men Rehabilitation centres
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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