Recommendation 84

In the face of such challenges regarding the availability of treatment, Damian Hinds MP told us that “the Government made a commitment in the 10-year drugs strategy paper From Harm to Hope to making sure that there is a treatment place for every offender with an addiction and that there is money behind that”. He told us that he “would like to see considerably more drug rehabilitation requirements”. 161 Justin Russell noted that “after the Government published their drug strategy at the end of 2021, there was a significant increase in treatment funding”, but that “it was not in the control of the Probation Service, so it still has to join the queue with everybody else”. 162