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S6W-13262 · Written Question · lodged by Greene, Jamie

Lodged on
14 Dec 2022
Heard / answered on
23 Dec 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in relation to deaths in custody determined to be suicides, in how many instances were (a) non-prescription and (b) illegal drugs found or suspected to be present in the deceased, including in cases where this was detected following a toxicology report, in each year since 2016.

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The Scottish Prison Service publish information regarding all deaths in SPS custody on a quarterly basis, which includes the ‘medical certificate of cause of death’ (MCCD). However, data is not held by either the Scottish Government or the Scottish Prison Service on the number of instances of deaths in prison custody determined to be suicides involved non-prescription or illegal drugs found or suspected to be present in the deceased.
Steps are being taken through the implementation of the recommendations of the Independent Review of the Response to Deaths in Prison Custody to improve availability of data relating to deaths in prison custody.

Answered by Keith Brown on 23 Dec 2022.