Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 23 January 1997.
I congratulate the hon. Lady on being made a Privy Councillor. Will she acknowledge that, over the past few months, Ministers have repeatedly given me inaccurate information on the scale and types of drugs being detected in the prison system? Does she accept that as soon as accurate information is available, it should be published so that we can make a proper assessment of what is happening in prisons and informed decisions on how to combat the growing menace of drug abuse in our prison system?