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Prisons: Drugs

Answer

To provide data on prisoners remaining in custody beyond their sentence date would require a search of individual records, which could not be done without incurring disproportionate cost.

Information on interpretation and translation costs covering the time period specified is not available. Expenditure interpretation and translation in the current financial year to date is shown in the table below. As both types of expenditure are accounted for under the same budget item, it is not possible to provide a further breakdown.

Establishment	Interpretation and translation costs, Apr-Sept 2024 (£)
HMP Maidstone	41,230.97
HMP Huntercombe	1,890.87
HMP Morton Hall	8,575.63

“Drug-related incident” is not a discrete category within the data collected. A variety of different types of incidents could potentially be drug related. It would therefore be necessary to make a detailed search of individual records to establish which incidents could be categorised in that way. This could not be done without incurring disproportionate cost.

The latest published breakdown of offences for which prisoners at the three establishments have been imprisoned can be found via the following link (under the ‘PT’ tab): Prison_Population_data_tool_2024-09-30.xlsx.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

18752

Session

2024-26

Grouped for answer

Yes

Subjects

Drugs Misuse HMP Huntercombe HMP Maidstone HMP Morton Hall

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

View this Written question on www.parliament.uk