Mr. Speaker, I have a return to written question asked by Mr. Moses on March 7, 2013, regarding incarceration rates for NWT correctional facilities.

The Member asked about incarceration rates of inmates who were sentenced with alcohol and/or drug-related crimes in the NWT from the 2011-12 fiscal year to present. From April 1, 2011, to February 28, 2013, there were 889 sentenced offenders admitted to custody. Two hundred of those offenders had committed offences related to alcohol or drugs. Of the 200, 130 inmates had alcohol-related offences while 70 had drug-related offences. Offences referred to as alcohol and drug related are impaired driving, liquor offences, and drug offences under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. We do not always know if alcohol or drug use was a factor in an offence, likely resulting in the underreporting of this information.

The Member also asked for statistics about incarceration rates of inmates for the 2012-13 fiscal year to present on a month-to-month basis for all NWT correctional facilities. Later today, at the appropriate time, I will table historical data on the monthly average and peak counts for the 2011-12 fiscal year and the number of inmates who have participated in an alcohol and/or drug-related prevention program from the 2011-12 fiscal year to present.