Question to the Ministry of Justice:

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

As part of the ambitious cross-Government Drug Strategy, we are rolling out a wide range of interventions to support prisoners off drugs and into recovery. We have 7 prisons with a Drug Recovery Wing. These wings are testing a new approach to help prisoners with an opiate dependency achieve abstinence.

Alongside this, we are increasing the number of Incentivised Substance-Free Living (ISFL) wings, where prisoners commit to remaining free of illicit drugs with regular drug testing and incentives. We now have 70 prisons with an ISFL and aim to reach up to 100 by March 2025.