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Home Office

Answer

Mr. Stinchcombe: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many prisoners who began intensive drug treatment programmes in 2003-04 (a) completed and (b) dropped out of the programme; [196273] (2) if he will list the prisons which run internal drug treatment programmes, broken down by type of programme. [196274] Paul Goggins: In 2003-04, of the 4,703 prisoners entering intensive drug treatment programmes, there were 2,418 completions. The list of prisons that run internal drug treatment programmes is given in the following table. External contractors also run drug programmes in some of these and other prisons. Drug treatment programmes run internally Accredited programmes PASRO1 Ashwell--East Midlands South Chelmsford--Eastern Elmley--Kent, Surrey and Sussex Glen Parva--East Midlands South Haverigg--North West Lancaster Castle--North West Leeds--Yorkshire and Humberside Liverpool--North West Low Newton--North East Maidstone--Kent, Surrey and Sussex Moorlands--Yorkshire and Humberside Parc--Wales Risley--North West Rochester--Kent, Surrey and Sussex Stafford--West Midlands Swinfen Hall--West Midlands Wayland--Eastern Ranby--East Midlands North STOP2 Gartree--East Midlands South Stocken--East Midlands South Other programmes Validated3 Ashfield--Juveniles Bristol--South West Nottingham--East Midlands Reading--Thames Valley Short duration programme4 Bedford--Eastern Exeter--South West New Hall--Female Estate Nottingham--East Midlands Wormwood Scrubs--London Manchester--North West Blakenhurst--West Midlands Glen Parva--East Midlands South Pentonville--London Birmingham--West Midlands Swansea--Wales. 1 PASRO--Prisons Addressing Substance Related Offending. 2 STOP--Substance, Treatment and Offending Programme. 3 Area Manager Validated sites. Framework fully adheres to the NTA definition within tier 3. 4 Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for short-term and remand prisoners, which provides a suitable platform for release into the community.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

426 c1126-7W;426 c1130-1W; 196273;196274

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Drugs Prisoners Prisons Rehabilitation

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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