Caroline Dinenage
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(13 years, 10 months ago)
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Mr Djanogly
The timetable was worsening, but more resources have been put in and we hope that the situation will improve.
Caroline Dinenage (Gosport) (Con)
T7. Can the Minister please tell me what steps his Department is taking to tackle the levels of drugs that are available in our prisons and the levels of drug addiction among prisoners?
Mr Blunt
We announced proposals in the Green Paper on drug-free wings and drug-recovery wings, which will work in conjunction with the wider application of the payment-by-results scheme in the community. That sits alongside all the efforts to police prisons effectively and to keep drugs out of prisons, through the effective use of all the resources available to the Prison Service and the police.