Prisoners sentenced to four years imprisonment or less may be released before serving half their sentences under the provisions of the home detention curfew scheme. Asylum Support 16. To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the functioning of the national asylum support scheme. This has limited the responsibility of local authorities in providing support for asylum seekers. To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the national asylum support service.
All figures are provisional and rounded to the nearest ten.
Drug-related Crime 17. Consideration will also be given to the use of specialist drug review hearings to handle cases involving drug misusing offenders and the scope for setting up a police register for drug dealers similar to that which already exists for sex offenders. In addition, my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced on 7 March extra funding over three years for the fight against drugs. We will also be announcing shortly details of further funding for programmes to tackle drug-related crime.