Question follow-through · 31379
Prisons: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to reduce the number of positive mandatory drug tests in prisons.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 12 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 24 Feb 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
12 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to reduce the number of positive mandatory drug tests in prisons.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Feb 2025
Answer published
We know that drugs drive reoffending and are committed to supporting offenders into recovery so they can turn their lives around.It is crucial we have a multi-pronged approach to tackling drugs - to curb the supply of drugs into prisons, several security ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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