Offender Substance Abuse Programmes

EDM number 1153 in 2007-08, proposed by Ian Taylor on 11/03/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Crime, Drugs misuse and Alternatives to prison.

That this House notes that the Criminal Justice Act 2003 provided for drug rehabilitation to be made available to courts under community sentences; accepts that this type of sentence is appropriate for some drug users over 16 who commit crime to fund their drug habit yet show willingness to co-operate with treatment; but calls on the Government to issue guidelines to the National Probation Service on the placement of participants in offender substance abuse programmes to prevent young first-time soft drug users attending sessions with those convicted of hard drug abuse and drug pushing.

This motion has been signed by a total of 30 MPs.