Prisons: Drugs

(asked on 28th February 2017) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many drug-related deaths there have been in prisons in each year since 2010.


Answered by
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Lord Keen of Elie
This question was answered on 13th March 2017

The system for classifying deaths used in the published statistics on deaths in custody provides a provisional classification for administrative and statistical purposes and does not distinguish those that are drug-related. All deaths in prison custody are subject to a coroner’s inquest. It is the responsibility of the coroner to determine the cause of death and the final classification is only determined at inquest.

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