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Prisons: Drugs

Answer

Data on how much was spent on providing methadone to drug programmes in prisons in England and Wales are not held centrally. Total spent on all clinical substance misuse interventions, including the provision of methadone, in England between 2005-12 is shown in the table. Funding for the provision of clinical drug treatment in public sector prisons in Wales is the responsibility of the Welsh Government.Additionally, from April 2011, the Department of Health also invested £70 million per annum on psychosocial interventions in English prisons, which are designed to assist dependent users to recover from their addiction, including those on methadone.In 2010-11, a total of 61,109 prisoners received a clinical drug intervention. Of these 30,650 (50%) received a maintenance prescription for opioid dependency of either methadone or buprenorphine. 30,459 received a detoxification treatment.¹"¹ NOMS Performance DATA"

Funding from the Department of Health (DH) to commission enhanced clinical drug treatment services in adult prisons in England from 2005-12¹
£ million
	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12
Integrated Drug Treatment System (IDTS)	0	12.0	13.2	22.4	38.5	44.5	44.5
Baseline²	11	11.0	11.0	11.0	11.0	11.0	11.0
Total	11	23	24.2	33.4	49.5	55.5	55.5
¹ Figures provided by Department of Health.
² Detoxification allocation that predates IDTS and is held in primary care trust (PCT) generic prison health care budgets.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

106124; 543 c1478-9W

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Drugs Prisons

Link

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