APPENDIX 2
Supplementary notes by HM Prison Service
DRUGS AND PRISONS
When giving evidence to the Committee on 4 May,
Martin Narey undertook to write with further information on four
issues: a breakdown of the proposed spending of funding from the
Comprehensive Spending Review; the numbers of finds of drugs in
1997-98 and 1998-99; a breakdown of MDT results; and, information
on the effects of the new policy on banning of visitors involved
in smuggling drugs into prisons.
FUNDING
The tables below show the breakdown of the proposed
spending of Comprehensive Spending Review funding. These have
been agreed with the United Kingdom Anti Drugs Co-ordination Unit
and the Treasury. At this stage, the sub totals in each category
are indicative, particularly in 2000-2001 and 2001-2002. The exact
spend will depend on the cost of individual contracts with our
external service providers. The procurement process for these
are underway.
Table 1
TOTAL DRUG STRATEGY BUDGET (CSR AND NON-CSR
FUNDS)
|
| | Year 1 | Year 2
| Year 3 | TOTAL
|
|
| CSR funds | 22,572,000
| 26,291,000 | 26,949,000 |
75,812,000 |
| non-CSR funds | 8,531,000 |
8,531,000 | 8,531,000 | 25,593,000
|
| Total | 31,103,000 | 34,822,000
| 35,480,000 | 101,405,000 |
|
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Table 2
BREAKDOWN OF DRUG STRATEGY BUDGET (CSR AND NON-CSR FUNDS)
FOR THREE YEAR PERIOD 1999-2002
|
| Allocations | CSR
| Non-CSR | Total
|
|
| Detoxification | 10,800,000
| 3,400,000 | 14,200,000 |
| Rehabilitation | 9,700,000 |
6,300,000 | 16,000,000 |
| TCs | 2,750,000 | 4,100,000
| 6,850,000 |
| CARATs | 23,500,000 | 4,500,000
| 28,000,000 |
| Voluntary Testing | 17,000,000
| nil | 17,000,000 |
| Sub-totals | 63,750,000
| 18,300,000 | 82,050,000
|
| Supply Reduction | 8,450,000
| nil | 8,450,000 |
| MDT Contract | nil | 3,900,000
| 3,900,000 |
| Consultancy/Research | 1,500,000
| nil | 1,500,000 |
| IT Hardware and Software | 222,000
| nil | 222,000 |
| Innovative Projects | 1,890,000
| nil | 1,890,000 |
| DSU staff | nil | 1,350,000
| 1,350,000 |
| Area Drug Co-ordinators | nil
| 2,043,000 | 2,043,000 |
| Sub-totals | 12,062,000
| 7,293,000 | 19,355,000
|
| Grand Totals | 75,812,000 |
25,593,000 | 101,405,000 |
|
DRUG FINDS
The table below shows the number of drug finds in 1997-98
and 1998-99
TOTAL DRUG FINDS
|
| Year | Number
|
|
| 1996 | 7,216 |
| 1997 | 6,216 |
| 1998 | 5,086 |
| 1999 | 1,207 |
| (to date) | |
|
| *includes drug-taking implements |
MANDATORY DRUG
TESTING
Attached at Annex A[13]
is a breakdown by type of prison of each establishment's MDT figure
for the first 11 months of 1998-99.
BANNING OF
VISITORS
The policy of all establishments banning visitors involved
in drug smuggling came into force only last month. We have established
a quarterly reporting system to provide information on the operation
of the scheme. We expect to be able to put forward the first report
to our Ministers towards the end of July. I shall put forward
details to the Committee after that.
I hope that the Committee found their visit to Downview informative.
I know that Martin Narey is writing to Mr Mullin to suggest a
visit to Parkhurst, another establishment with an excellent story
to tell regarding drugs.
After the oral evidence session on 4 May, Gerald Howarth
suggested that the Committee should visit a prison with a less
well established drug misuse framework. We suggest that the Committee
visits Birmingham prison. We are directing a significant amount
of funding to this prison in order to bring it up to the standards
set by Downview and others. The most recent MDT results show a
36 per cent rate of positive tests at Birmingham compared with
9 per cent at Downview. The Committee would find that a visit
would offer the opportunity to compare the different approaches
in the prisons. Please let me know whether the Committee wish
to visit Birmingham so that I can provide some briefing for members
for the visit.
Steve Gorman
Prison Service Secretariat
14 May 1999
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