Drug and Alcohol Treatment: Residential Services 19 Dec 2005

Drug and Alcohol Treatment: Residential Services

Lord Avebury asked Her Majesty's Government:

How many residential places for drug and alcohol treatment and maintenance will be available nationally and by region, for men and women respectively, for persons serving the non-custodial part of a custody plus sentence, when this provision comes into force. [HL1984]

The Minister of State, Home Office (Baroness Scotland of Asthal): There are presently 122 residential treatment centres for adult drug and alcohol misusers in England and Wales with a total of 2,595 beds. A breakdown by region and gender is shown in the table below.

Region	Number of centres	Total number of beds	Number of male only beds	Number of female only beds
North-east	4	110	28	9
North-west	19	320	79	49
Yorkshire and
Humberside	8	176	24	12
East Midlands	4	49	6	6
West Midlands	3	51	24	4
East of England	6	148	6	25
London	21	453	71	28
South-east	25	546	135	18
South-west	28	695	211	112
Wales	4	47		12
Total	1221	2,5952	5843	2754

Further information is available from the National Treatment Agency's online residential treatment directory.


The Department of Health and National Treatment Agency have plans to increase the number of beds from 2006-07 but it is not possible to say


1 Nine are drug only and 11 alcohol only.


2 116 are drug only and 188 alcohol only.


3 38 are drug only and four alcohol only.


4 Six are drug only and four alcohol only.