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Written question asked by Lord Mann (Labour) on Monday, 15 October 2012, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 18 October 2012. It was answered by Jeremy Browne (Liberal Democrat) on Thursday, 25 October 2012 on behalf of the Home Office.


Prisons: Drugs

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offenders were referred to treatment for using MCAT in the last year for which figures are available.

[123488]

Answer

[holding answer 18 October 2012]: Information is not collected centrally about the number of users of the drug MCAT (mephedrone) within the criminal justice system. The most recently published data from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System show that in 2010-11, 461 adults and 411 young people identified MCAT as their principal drug but the data do not record whether a person was within the criminal justice system at the time of treatment.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
123488; 551 cc1012-3W
Session
2012-13
Subjects
Health services Drugs Offenders Prisons Misuse
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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