Keith Vaz – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keith Vaz on 2015-10-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people are currently detained in UK prisons for cannabis-related offences.

Andrew Selous

As at 30 June 2015 (latest date for which information is available), the number of offenders in prisons in England and Wales for cannabis related offences was 1,363.

Information on Scotland and Northern Ireland are matters for the Scottish Government and Northern Ireland Executive respectively.

These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.