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856090

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of mental health services in prisons.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	131256
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>Health services in prisons are commissioned by NHS England who are responsible for making assessments of the current provision of mental health assessments and treatment in the prison systems in England. In Wales health is devolved to the Welsh Government where separate arrangements are made for assessment.</p><p> </p><p>We take mental health provision very seriously and are committed to working closely with health partners in England and Wales to ensure that offenders are able to access the treatment and support required for their mental health needs.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise the importance of the prison environment on enabling better health outcomes. We are ensuring that each prisoner has a dedicated prison officer to support them and are implementing reforms to give all prisoners a key worker. This will help ensure that prisoners are better supported to attend scheduled health and mental health appointments and assessments to support their recovery. This will also ensure that a dedicated officer will be able to build a relationship with them and be in a better position to respond to changes in their behaviour or their mental well-being.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 14/03/2018 13:50:52 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

631225

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Prisons: Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much mental health funding there has been per prisoner in the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	52101
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 14/11/2016 15:16:29 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1564532

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of mental health support provision in the Prisons Estate.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
	uin	117916
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>In response to both the Justice Select Committee’s inquiry on Mental Health in Prisons and His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation’s inspection of the Criminal Justice Journey for Individuals with Mental Health Needs and Disorders, health and justice partners set out a wide range of commitments to improve mental health support in prisons, committing to ensuring that people in prison have access to an equivalent standard, range, and quality of health care in prisons to that available in the wider community.</p><p> </p><p>Since the inquiries, the Government has published a draft Mental Health Bill, which is now subject to pre-legislative scrutiny. The Bill includes vital reforms to support people with serious mental illnesses in the criminal justice system. This includes speeding up access to specialist in-patient care and treatment by ending the use of prison as a ‘place of safety’ and establishing a new statutory time limit of 28 days for transfers from prison to hospital.</p><p> </p><p>In partnership with the Centre for Mental Health, NHS England recently completed a national mental health needs analysis for prisoners. This data will feed into a refreshed mental health service specification by April 2023 to ensure that services continue to be tailored to the needs of people in prison.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice is committed to continuing to work closely with NHS England to improve services in prison, ensuring that people have access to timely and effective mental health care. This ongoing commitment is reflected in the new National Partnership Agreement on Health and Social Care in England, which is due to be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 117918 question first answered 16/01/2023 13:45:19 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1347419

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of offenders of the Offender Personality Disorder pathway programme are (a) male and (b) female.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	33873
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2021 answer text <p>The Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) pathway is a clinically led joint initiative with the NHS. It is not a single intervention rather a series of different interventions tailored for individuals based on clinical need.</p><p> </p><p>The number and proportions of men and women in custody and in the community who had been screened into the OPD pathway as of 30 June 2021 is displayed in the table below. The figures relate to all those within the Probation Service caseload who are identified as being eligible for OPD services. Being screened into the programme does not mean an individual will automatically receive intervention. This is an administrative process to identify those who may fit the programme criteria. Intervention pathways are determined through further assessment and sentence planning.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Gender</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>People managed by the Probation Service screened into the OPD pathway (as of 30/06/21)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of all people managed by the Probation Service who had been screened into the OPD pathway (as of 30/06/21)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Male</p></td><td><p>33,757</p></td><td><p>94.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Female</p></td><td><p>2,164</p></td><td><p>6.0%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and is the best data that is available. The data may differ slightly to that of the published statistics where data was run on a different date.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 23/07/2021 13:24:25 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

576579

	registered interest
	date	30/08/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment the Government has made of the effectiveness of its policies on supporting prisoners with mental health issues; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Horsham
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Quin
	uin	906077
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2016 answer text <p>We know that people with mental health problems are disproportionately represented in the Criminal Justice System, and these conditions require treatment. We are working with health partners, as part of prison reform, to improve the data and evidence we collect to assist with evaluating health interventions. We are committed to meeting the mental health needs of prisoners. All prisons have procedures in place to identify, manage and support people with mental health issues.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 06/09/2016 15:28:36 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin

226366

	registered interest
	date	10/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Prisons: Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to improve the mental health of prisoners.
	tabling member constituency	Meon Valley
	tabling member printed	George Hollingbery
	uin	226885
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2015 answer text <p>NHS England is improving prison mental health services through nationally developed service specifications, which are being rolled out across the prison estate in England, ensuring that there are national standards against which services can be measured.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government’s Mandate with NHS England commits NHS England to develop better healthcare services for people in the criminal justice system. We have also asked the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to develop guidelines on improving the mental health for people in prison, which it expects to publish in 2016.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Liaison and diversion services seek to identify offenders who have mental health, learning disability or substance misuse vulnerabilities, and who come into contact with the criminal justice system, so that they can either be supported through the criminal justice pathway or diverted into treatment, social care service or other relevant intervention or support service. NHS England is currently rolling out a new standard model of liaison and diversion service to ensure that services are consistent and can support people of all ages. From April 2015, there will be 22 liaison and diversion sites across England covering over 55% of the population. If the model is successful, services will then be rolled out nationally by 2017/18 subject to HM Treasury approval of the full business case.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Work is currently underway with the Ministry of Justice on developing mental health care in the criminal justice system, which will ensure that prisoners receive mental health treatment equivalent to what they would receive in the community and support continuity of treatment between custody and community.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 17/03/2015 17:06:09 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	4016 label Biography information for Sir George Hollingbery

692631

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork assessors are employed in each public sector prison.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	64707
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 28/02/2017 17:06:10 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1123228

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the number of suicide prevention practitioners in prisons.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	247608
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>Suicide prevention is the responsibility of all staff in prisons who have contact with prisoners. This includes prison staff and those employed by partner organisations, including healthcare providers. All staff with prisoner contact are trained in suicide and self-harm prevention, and we have delivered improved training to nearly 25,000 staff since April 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) case management process for prisoners identified as being at risk includes specialist roles for assessors and case managers, and we provide additional training for staff taking on these roles. ACCT relies for its effectiveness on multi-disciplinary working, and contributions from a range of specialist staff, from prison chaplains and psychologists to mental health nurses working for healthcare providers, who bring their specific training and skills to the review teams responsible for managing each individual who is at risk.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 30/04/2019 15:59:33 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

436792

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Prisons: Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on the roll-out of liaison and diversion services; and what timetable he has set for completion of the business case for completing the national roll-out of those services.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	19313
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>Liaison and diversion services are currently available to approximately 50 per cent of the population in England.</p><br /><p>Further rollout is conditional upon completing business case approvals. The business case approval process is underway and we hope that this process will be completed early in 2016.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 16/12/2015 17:03:17 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1362196

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Annual Report of the Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Erlestoke, published on 15 October 2021, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the creation of specialised units for neurodiverse prisoners who do not meet the criteria for a hospital order but cannot function in non-specialised prison environments.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
	uin	60374
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2021 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice is committed to providing a supportive environment for neurodivergent prisoners.</p><p>Some of our prisons already have specialist wings, including HMP Parc and HMP Wakefield, which are designed to cater for the needs of neurodivergent individuals. Our future prison build programme will be informed by available evidence on design principles, including the Call for Evidence on Neurodiversity.</p><p>Prisons can also work with the National Autistic Society to achieve Autism Accreditation, which includes providing sensory rooms or separate wings for autistic prisoners and we are committed to promoting autism accreditation across the estate.</p><p>We are currently testing a new Neurodiversity Support Manager role in some prisons, who will be responsible for liaising with education and skills teams and ensuring that departments across the prison are aware of prisoners’ individual needs.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 29/10/2021 13:07:08 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown