PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Dogs: Drugs (22 November 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to her oral contribution of 15 November 2016, Official Report, column 130, on training dogs to detect new psychoactive substances, how many such dogs have (a) been in service and (b) been trained to be in service in each year since 2010.

Asked by:
Richard Burgon (Labour)

There are currently 312 Public Sector Prison dogs in service trained to detect new psychoactive substances. All 312 dogs were trained in 2015. No such dogs were trained before 2015.

Answered by:
Mr Sam Gyimah (Liberal Democrat)
7 December 2016