Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many drug seizures were made in prisons in England and Wales in each of the last three years; and what drugs were seized.

The misuse of drugs in prison drives violence, vulnerability and crime and so tackling this is one of our top priorities. Consequently, we are improving our security to restrict the availability of drugs. We use body, property, cell and area searches, metal-detecting scanners and drug and phone detection dogs across the estate. We are investing £6 million to tackle drug supply and reduce demand in 10 of the most challenging prisons, with body scanners and more staff focused on effective searching.

Data and information on drug finds is routinely published as part of the normal publication schedule

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-hm-prison-and-probation-service-digest-2017-to-2018

Data on drug finds in 2018-19 will be published in due course in line with the normal publication schedule.