Drug Addiction (Crime)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 15 March 1999.

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Photo of James Clappison James Clappison Shadow Spokesperson (Education) 12:00, 15 March 1999

Does the Minister agree that there is a trade in drugs in our prisons? Keeping drugs out of prison is vital if the link between drug addiction and crime is to be broken. Is it not a fact that drugs are far too readily available in our prisons? This is a difficult problem, but does the Minister accept that the Government made a serious mistake in weakening the system of mandatory drug testing just when there was evidence that it was working? Are not the Government in danger of not even fighting the war against drugs, let alone winning it?