Drug Abuse (Prisons)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 23 January 1997.

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Photo of Ann Widdecombe Ann Widdecombe , Maidstone 12:00, 23 January 1997

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his kind remarks. As I met him this week specifically to discuss the issue, he will be aware that there are some doubts and questions—which are perhaps not particularly large or with a particularly vast effect—on the integrity of retests, which are given after test results have been challenged, and on the impact of that matter on the overall figures. He will be aware—as I have given him an undertaking—that the matter is being examined urgently, that the figures are being refined and that any past statements we have made that may have been based on old and questionable figures will be corrected.