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Ministry of Justice more like this
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star this property hansard heading Woodhill Prison more like this
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star this property question text To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the HMP Woodhill Urgent Notification: Initial Response Action Plan published on 1 September 2023, which actions set out in that plan have been completed as of 19 December 2023. more like this
star this property tabling member constituency Brentford and Isleworth more like this
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Ruth Cadbury more like this
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star this property date of answer less than 2024-01-08more like thismore than 2024-01-08
star this property answer text <p>Since 2019 there have been 11 Urgent Notifications issued. Details of each Urgent Notification and the Lord Chancellor’s response and action plan can be found on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/urgent-notification-process" target="_blank">gov.uk.</a></p><p>The Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor, alerted the Lord Chancellor of his concerns at HMP Woodhill on 1 September 2023. In line with the protocol between HM Inspectorate of Prisons and the Ministry of Justice, the Lord Chancellor responded to Charlie Taylor on 29 September 2023, setting out his response and action plan. We have commenced work on all 45 actions in the initial action plan, 10 are now complete and we continue to work on the remaining 35.</p> more like this
unstar this property answering member constituency Charnwood more like this
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less than 2024-01-08T14:20:49.757Zmore like thismore than 2024-01-08T14:20:49.757Z
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star this property label Biography information for Edward Argar more like this
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1679050
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Ministry of Justice more like this
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star this property hansard heading Prisons: Drugs more like this
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star this property question text To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 26 June 2023 to Question 190334, whether he has made an estimate of the number of (a) prison officers and (b) other prison staff who have been (i) investigated, (ii) arrested and (iii) charged in relation to the supply of drugs in prisons in each of the last six months. more like this
star this property tabling member constituency Brentford and Isleworth more like this
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Ruth Cadbury more like this
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star this property date of answer less than 2024-01-08more like thismore than 2024-01-08
star this property answer text <p>The vast majority of prison staff are hardworking and dedicated. A minority of staff engage in corrupt activity.</p><p> </p><p>HM Prison &amp; Probation Service has a zero-tolerance policy to drugs conveyed into prisons and take appropriate action to a small number of prison staff who break the rules. Our £100m Security Investment Programme, aimed at reducing crime in prisons, including reducing the conveyance of illicit items such as drugs and mobile phones, is ongoing. This includes increased resource to pursue corruption, as well as established a new ‘Prevent’ function, aimed at building staff resilience against corruption.</p><p> </p><p>Below is a table showing the breakdown of staff investigated from July 23 to Dec 2023 relating to the conveyance of drugs.</p><p><strong>Table 1</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>Month</em></p></td><td><p><strong>Cases where Officer Investigated</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Cases where Non-Officer Investigated</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p>104</p></td><td><p>42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Jul</strong></p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Aug</strong></p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Sep</strong></p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Oct</strong></p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Nov</strong></p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Dec</strong></p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Below is a table showing the breakdown of staff arrested from 2019 to Dec 2023 to date relating to the conveyance of drugs.</p><p><strong>Table 2</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>Month</em></p></td><td><p><strong>Cases where Officer Arrested</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Cases where Non-Officer Arrested</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Jul</strong></p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Aug</strong></p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Sep</strong></p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Oct</strong></p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Nov</strong></p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Dec</strong></p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Below is a table showing the breakdown of staff charged from 2019 to Dec 2023 to date relating to the conveyance of drugs.</p><p><strong>Table 3</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>Month</em></p></td><td><p><strong>Cases where Officer Charged*</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Cases where Non-Officer Charged*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Jul</strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Aug</strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Sep</strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Oct</strong></p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Nov</strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Dec</strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Source: </strong>Linkspace Case Management System.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p>Linkspace is the Counter Corruption Unit’s (CCU) Case Management System used to record and track cases linked to corruption.</p><p> </p><p>Data provided by the Counter Corruption (CCU) have the following Caveats applied below;</p><p>1) The new Counter Corruption Unit came into being in April 2019, with a new structure and a change to ways of working. During the initial transition period, and prior to the introduction of the new Case Management System, it is possible that not all arrests were being captured.</p><p>2) Prior to April 2019, corruption in HMPPS was managed by the Corruption Prevention Unit</p><p>(CPU). The CPU was a largely centralised unit focused on sanitising and disseminating all</p><p>corruption related intelligence to the Police, with an individual Regional Corruption</p><p>Prevention Manager (RCPM) in each geographical region offering advice and support to</p><p>prisons in managing corruption, Hence data prior to April 2019 is not available.</p><p>3) Data includes Non-Directly Employed Staff (public or private) as they provide a service on behalf of HMPPS.</p><p>4) Officers ‘charged*’ is not an assured metric, the data below is likely very underrepresented given it is substantially lower than our CJS outcomes i.e., CJS sentences, court fines, conditional discharges etc over this period.</p><p>5) The Investigations data is all operations opened on linkspace that relate to conveyance of drugs, for officers and non-officers. Some investigations are based off limited intelligence and many are unproven.</p>
unstar this property answering member constituency Charnwood more like this
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less than 2024-01-08T14:19:32.1Zmore like thismore than 2024-01-08T14:19:32.1Z
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star this property label Biography information for Edward Argar more like this
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1679103
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Ministry of Justice more like this
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star this property answering dept short name Justice more like this
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star this property hansard heading Woodhill Prison more like this
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star this property question text To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps have been taken to repair broken telephones for prison inmates at HMP Woodhill. more like this
star this property tabling member constituency Brentford and Isleworth more like this
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Ruth Cadbury more like this
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unstar this property is ministerial correction false more like this
star this property date of answer less than 2024-01-08more like thismore than 2024-01-08
star this property answer text <p>All public closed prisons within England and Wales which includes HMP Woodhill have a stock of pin phone handsets that are replaced on site in the event of the handset not working. If the fault is relating to cabling or port damage then the contracted supplier will attend the prison to resolve the issue.</p> more like this
unstar this property answering member constituency Charnwood more like this
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less than 2024-01-08T14:24:12.437Zmore like thismore than 2024-01-08T14:24:12.437Z
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1679102
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Ministry of Justice more like this
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star this property hansard heading Woodhill Prison: Repairs and Maintenance more like this
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star this property question text To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what maintenance work is required at HMP Woodhill as of 19 December 2023. more like this
star this property tabling member constituency Brentford and Isleworth more like this
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Ruth Cadbury more like this
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star this property answer text <p>We are continuing to invest in the prison estate to ensure prison places are safe, decent and secure. Over the last five years we have invested £16m at Woodhill, including upgrades to security and fire safety. A site wide programme of shower refurbishments is currently in development which will further improve levels of decency at the prison.</p> more like this
unstar this property answering member constituency Charnwood more like this
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less than 2024-01-08T14:23:07.193Zmore like thismore than 2024-01-08T14:23:07.193Z
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1679048
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Ministry of Justice more like this
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star this property hansard heading Prisons: Drugs more like this
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star this property question text To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what is the target number of random mandatory drug tests to be carried out in prisons each month. more like this
star this property tabling member constituency Brentford and Isleworth more like this
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Ruth Cadbury more like this
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star this property answer text <p>Random Mandatory Drug Testing is carried out across the prison estate to meet the annual target. The attached table details the prisons in which random mandatory drug tests were carried out in 2023.</p><p>Data for April to December 2023 is not included because it is subject to future publication as part of the 2023-24 Annual Digest.</p><p>The target number of rMDT each month is a random sample of 5% of prisoners in prisons with 400 or more prisoners and 10% of prisoners in prisons with fewer than 400 prisoners. These testing levels are set annually, based on the average monthly population in the previous year.</p> more like this
unstar this property answering member constituency Charnwood more like this
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less than 2024-01-10T16:21:36.683Zmore like thismore than 2024-01-10T16:21:36.683Z
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star this property label Biography information for Edward Argar more like this
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star this property file name 2024-01-10 PQ 7582 Table.xlsx more like this
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1679038
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Ministry of Justice more like this
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star this property hansard heading Prisons: Drugs more like this
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star this property question text To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the volume of illegal drugs found in prisons between (a) 2014 and 2018 and (b) 2019 and 2023. more like this
star this property tabling member constituency Brentford and Isleworth more like this
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Ruth Cadbury more like this
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star this property date of answer less than 2024-01-10more like thismore than 2024-01-10
star this property answer text <p>The number of incidents where drugs are found in prisons in England and Wales is published in the HMPPS Annual Digest through the <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1174265/8.__Finds_incidents_data_tool.xlsx" target="_blank">incidents data tool</a>.</p><p>a) Between April 2013 and March 2018, there were 44,206 drug find incidents in prisons in England and Wales.</p><p>b) Between April 2018 and March 2023, there were 92,619 drug find incidents in prisons in England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>Data for April to December 2023 is not included because it is subject to future publication as part of the 2023-24 Annual Digest.</p><p>It is important to consider with incidents of drug finds in prisons, that an increase in numbers may be as a result of more items being found, rather than more items being present in prisons. Our £100 million Security Investment Programme, aimed at reducing crime in prisons, including reducing the conveyance of illicit items such as drugs, was completed in March 2022. This investment delivered 75 additional X-ray body scanners resulting in full coverage across the closed adult male estate. As of October 2023, we have recorded 46,925 positive indications, helping to tackle the supply of drugs and other contraband into prisons.</p><p>Our £100m Security Investment Programme, aimed at reducing crime in prisons, including reducing the conveyance of illicit items such as drugs, was completed in March 2022. This investment delivered 75 additional X-ray body scanners resulting in full coverage across the closed adult male estate. As of October 2023, we have recorded 46,925 positive indications, helping to tackle the supply of drugs and other contraband into prisons.</p>
unstar this property answering member constituency Charnwood more like this
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less than 2024-01-10T17:03:41.057Zmore like thismore than 2024-01-10T17:03:41.057Z
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4389
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1679028
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Ministry of Justice more like this
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star this property hansard heading Prisons: Drugs more like this
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star this property question text To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in which prisons random mandatory drug tests were carried out in 2023. more like this
star this property tabling member constituency Brentford and Isleworth more like this
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Ruth Cadbury more like this
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star this property date of answer less than 2024-01-10more like thismore than 2024-01-10
star this property answer text <p>Random Mandatory Drug Testing is carried out across the prison estate to meet the annual target. The attached table details the prisons in which random mandatory drug tests were carried out in 2023.</p><p>Data for April to December 2023 is not included because it is subject to future publication as part of the 2023-24 Annual Digest.</p><p>The target number of rMDT each month is a random sample of 5% of prisoners in prisons with 400 or more prisoners and 10% of prisoners in prisons with fewer than 400 prisoners. These testing levels are set annually, based on the average monthly population in the previous year.</p> more like this
unstar this property answering member constituency Charnwood more like this
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less than 2024-01-10T16:21:36.633Zmore like thismore than 2024-01-10T16:21:36.633Z
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1679097
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Ministry of Justice more like this
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star this property hansard heading Prisons: Standards more like this
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star this property question text To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many urgent notifications have been issued by the prison inspectorate in each year from 2019 to 2023 inclusive. more like this
star this property tabling member constituency Brentford and Isleworth more like this
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Ruth Cadbury more like this
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star this property answer text <p>Since 2019 there have been 11 Urgent Notifications issued. Details of each Urgent Notification and the Lord Chancellor’s response and action plan can be found on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/urgent-notification-process" target="_blank">gov.uk.</a></p><p>The Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor, alerted the Lord Chancellor of his concerns at HMP Woodhill on 1 September 2023. In line with the protocol between HM Inspectorate of Prisons and the Ministry of Justice, the Lord Chancellor responded to Charlie Taylor on 29 September 2023, setting out his response and action plan. We have commenced work on all 45 actions in the initial action plan, 10 are now complete and we continue to work on the remaining 35.</p> more like this
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star this property grouped question UIN 7589 more like this
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less than 2024-01-08T14:20:49.71Zmore like thismore than 2024-01-08T14:20:49.71Z
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4389
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1679027
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Ministry of Justice more like this
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star this property answering dept short name Justice more like this
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star this property hansard heading Reoffenders more like this
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star this property question text To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many serious further offences were committed in each year between 2020 and 2023; and how many and what proportion of the perpetrators of those offences were (i) under community supervision, (ii) on a determinate prison sentence, (iii) on a life sentence and (iv) imprisoned for public protection. more like this
star this property tabling member constituency Brentford and Isleworth more like this
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Ruth Cadbury more like this
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star this property date of answer less than 2024-01-10more like thismore than 2024-01-10
star this property answer text <p>The table below sets out the total number of convictions, where an offender subject to probation supervision was <em>charged </em>with a serious further offence (SFO), which resulted subsequently in a conviction, for all cases notified to HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) between 1 January 2020 and 31 March 2022.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Index Sentence</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2022 (Jan-</strong>Dame Margaret Hodge<strong>Mar only)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>Number</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>Number</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Community Supervision</p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td><td><p>99</p></td><td><p>36%</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Determinate Prison Sentence</p></td><td><p>168</p></td><td><p>57%</p></td><td><p>158</p></td><td><p>57%</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>52%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Life Licence</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IPP</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong> 293</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>276</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>73</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>1. Time period for conviction data relates to the date of SFO notification to HMPPS not the date of conviction.</p><p>2. Index sentence refers to the sentencing disposal imposed by the court which led to probation services supervision of the offender.</p><p>3. The Index sentence refers to the first qualifying index sentence, in cases where offenders are supervised on multiple sentences.</p><p>4. The data includes cases where the SFO was committed within 28 days of the end of the supervision period.</p><p>5. Conviction data also includes cases where the offender committed suicide or died prior to the trial, where the judicial process concluded that they were responsible.</p><p>7. Data Sources and Quality. We have drawn these figures from administrative IT systems which, as with some large-scale recording systems, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p><p> </p><p>Figures are published based on the date of SFO notification (charge) received by HMPPS. The lag between the date of publication and the conviction figures is to allow time for most cases to complete the criminal justice process. Figures for 2022/23 will be published in October 2024.</p><p> </p><p>Serious further offences are incredibly rare, with fewer than 0.5% of offenders supervised by the Probation Service going on to commit serious further offences, but each one is investigated fully so we can take action where necessary. We have also injected extra funding of more than £155 million a year into the Probation Service to deliver tougher supervision, reduce caseloads and recruit thousands more staff to keep the public safer.</p>
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less than 2024-01-10T16:19:31.587Zmore like thismore than 2024-01-10T16:19:31.587Z
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Ministry of Justice more like this
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star this property answering dept short name Justice more like this
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star this property hansard heading Prisons: Drugs more like this
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star this property question text To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many random mandatory drug tests were carried out in prisons in each year between 2019 and 2023 inclusive. more like this
star this property tabling member constituency Brentford and Isleworth more like this
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Ruth Cadbury more like this
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star this property answer text <p>Data relating to random mandatory drug tests is published online in the HMPPS Annual Digest. The table below provides the total number of tests in each year between 2019 and 2023 inclusive.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Number of random mandatory drug tests in England and Wales April 2018 - March 2023</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>April 2018 - March 2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>April 2019 - March 2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>April 2020 - March 2021</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>April 2021 - March 2022</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>April 2022 - March 2023</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of tests</p></td><td><p>54,242</p></td><td><p>54,047</p></td><td><p>4,738</p></td><td><p>12,396</p></td><td><p>41,308</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Source: Contracted MDT testing laboratory</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>From March 2020 to April 2021 rMDT target levels were suspended due to the Covid-19 restrictions placed upon prison regimes. The increase in testing levels during March 2022 to March 2023 is associated with the re-introduction of the target levels and changes in regime following the pandemic.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Data Sources and Quality</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Care is taken when processing and analysing returns but the detail is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. Although shown to the last case, the figures may not be accurate to that level.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>This does not include tests that were spoilt or lost in transit on the way to the laboratory.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Please see below the links to the annual digests from each year:</strong></p><p>2018/2019: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpps-annual-digest-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">HMPPS Annual Digest 2018 to 2019 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>2019/2020: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpps-annual-digest-april-2019-to-march-2020" target="_blank">HMPPS Annual Digest: April 2019 to March 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>2020/2021: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpps-annual-digest-april-2020-to-march-2021" target="_blank">HMPPS Annual Digest, April 2020 to March 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>2021/2022: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpps-annual-digest-april-2021-to-march-2022" target="_blank">HMPPS Annual Digest, April 2021 to March 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>2022/2023: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpps-annual-digest-april-2022-to-march-2023" target="_blank">HMPPS Annual Digest, April 2022 to March 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>Data for April to December 2023 is not included because it is subject to future publication as part of the 2023-24 Annual Digest.</p>
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