Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions drugs were found in parcels containing books destined for prisoners in each of the last four years.

Jeremy Wright

Prisons employ a range of measures to detect, disrupt and deter the trafficking of drugs into prisons.

Details of how many occasions drugs were found in parcels containing books destined for prisoners in each of the last four years are recorded on a central incident reporting system as a drug-related incident. To establish a figure for the period in question would require the interrogation of over 18,000 individual electronic incident files. This could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.