13 June 2008
Prisons Minister David Hanson has made a written ministerial statement on the publication of a PricewaterhouseCoopers report on prison drug treatment funding.
The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (David Hanson):
On 17 March by way of a written ministerial statement, together with my right honourable friend the Minister of State, Department of Health (Dawn Primarolo) and my honourable friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Health (Ivan Lewis), I announced:
- additional Department of Health funding for prison clinical drug treatment;
- a national Prison Drug Treatment Review Group, to be chaired by Professor Lord Kamlesh Patel; and
- publication of the executive summary of the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report, 'A Review of Prison-Based Drug Treatment Funding, December 2007'.
Following considerable interest in the report, I am today with my right honourable friend the Minister of State, Department of Health (Dawn Primarolo) and my honourable friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Health (Ivan Lewis) announcing publication in full of the PwC report. The report provides a more detailed analysis of the PwC conclusions.
Professor Lord Kamlesh Patel will now consider the PwC recommendations, agree a single set of priorities and compile national guidance around the streamlining of the commissioning, delivery funding and performance management of drug treatment for offenders.
- Review of prison-based drug treatment funding [PDF 1.23mb, 91 pages]
- Appendix 1 [PDF 0.20mb, 1 pages]
- Appendix 2 [PDF 0.05mb, 5 pages]
- Appendix 3 [PDF 0.08mb, 7 pages]
- Appendix 4 [PDF 0.16mb, 17 pages]
- Appendix 5 [PDF 0.10mb, 10 pages]
- Appendix 6 [PDF 0.05mb, 7 pages]