Written question asked by Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative) on Thursday, 14 December 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 19 December 2006. It was answered by Gerry Sutcliffe (Labour) on Tuesday, 19 December 2006 on behalf of the Home Office.

Prisons

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to his answer of 11 December 2006, Official Report, columns 835-36, on prisons, what criteria were used to establish those prisons with an overriding need to improve the quality of their clinical drug services; and what assessment he made of HMP Peterborough against those criteria.

Answer: The prisons were selected according to the following criteria—a spread between geographical areas; the inclusion of both male and female prisons; and the inclusion of both public and contracted prisons. After this, prisons were chosen where the balance of evidence, from the opinions of those clinicians who best know the field, showed that the quality of clinical drug services was especially in need of improvement. This was not the assessment given to HMP Peterborough's clinical drug services.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 454 c1974W;454 c1978W; 110371
Session: 2006-07
Related items: Prisons
Monday, 11 December 2006
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects: Drugs Prisons
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk