Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisons have a drug free wing.

As part of the ambitious cross-Government Drug Strategy, the Ministry of Justice is rolling out a range of interventions to support prisoners off drugs and into recovery. We now have 70 prisons with an Incentivised Substance-Free Living (ISFL) wing, where prisoners commit to remaining free of illicit drugs with regular drug testing and incentives. We aim to reach up to 100 ISFLs by March 2025.

7 of these prisons also have a Drug Recovery Wing, where we are testing a new approach to help prisoners with an opiate dependency achieve abstinence. These Drug Recovery Wings will support prisoners who are clinically ready to transition off opioid substitution treatment and be abstinent from both illicit drugs and prescribed substitutes.