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	Percentage changes
	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Avon and Somerset	28	2	6	-31	17
Bedfordshire	-49	96	-6	-1	11
Cambridgeshire	-19	47	-3	30	27
Cheshire	-38	109	-35	-26	13
Cleveland	16	9	-13	0	12
Cumbria	14	-23	15	3	4
Derbyshire	8	-18	-3	39	4
Devon and Cornwall	4	6	-35	70	9
Dorset	10	24	10	7	11
Durham	8	-8	-1	6	-5
Dyfed-Powys	5	301	-39	-71	-22
Essex	6	-1	1	17	38
Gloucestershire	142	4	29	8	-3
Greater Manchester	-3	7	6	-44	50
Gwent	0	3	-1	232	30
Hampshire	-3	37	-9	-2	-7
Hertfordshire	-10	77	2	3	4
Humberside	27	62	2	5	-7
Kent	12	6	-4	9	3
Lancashire	7	-11	2	3	11
Leicestershire	-2	468	-67	-63	18
Lincolnshire	-31	71	143	-7	25
London, City of	10	-19	17	20	110
Merseyside	-26	-1	9	14	4
Metropolitan Police	-14	6	-31	25	44
Norfolk	-3	9	-9	-21	14
Northamptonshire	9	-60	141	41	9
Northumbria	2	0	2	11	4
North Wales	46	8	24	2	-4
North Yorkshire	13	-1	18	-5	8
Nottinghamshire	0	14	28	9	3
South Wales	-4	17	-8	5	14
South Yorkshire	129	27	7	-10	-1
Staffordshire	28	99	9	5	4
Suffolk	15	0	-3	14	-1
Surrey	48	8	-8	-6	0
Sussex	11	-47	73	10	19
Thames Valley	17	20	-6	58	1
Warwickshire	-22	21	44	21	8
West Mercia	12	6	11	12	14
West Midlands	-4	4	1	-6	8
West Yorkshire	1	0	-1	-12	-6
Wiltshire	1	12	-2	-3	-3
Notes: 1. All data are provisional and unverified 2. Data are estimated. Where data are estimated, corresponding percentage changes are based on those estimates

Drugs: Crime

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of those brought into a police station tested positively for class A drugs in 2008-09; and how many offenders entered treatment voluntarily through the Drug Intervention Programme in that year. [290975]

Mr. Alan Campbell [holding answer 14 September 2009]: Under the Drug Interventions Programme (DIP), drug-testing of offenders for specified class A drugs (heroin and cocaine/crack) in police custody takes place in 107 BCUs. Offenders arrested or charged with a "trigger offence"-largely acquisitive crime related offences-are required to provide a sample to be tested. In 2008-09, 34 per cent. of those drug-tested while in police custody tested positively for class A drugs.

All treatment takes place with consent and therefore is entered voluntarily.

DIP identifies drug misusers through a positive drug test, as well as through referral in the community and prison. The number of adults commencing treatment through DIP in 2008-09 was 57,951.

Mr. Djanogly: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make an estimate of the number of people who have been (a) arrested and (b) charged in respect of offences committed while they were taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in each of the last five years. [291487]

Mr. Alan Campbell: The information requested is not available as it is not possible to separately identify
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people who have been arrested and charged in respect of offences committed while they were taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.

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