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	date	02/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice of 5 September 2017, Official Report, Column 19, whether protocols his Department were developing with the Department of Health in 2017 on mental health and prisoner access to healthcare have been implemented; and what those protocols are.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	272231
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>MoJ is committed to working in collaboration with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), NHS England (NHSE), Public Health England (PHE) and HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) to deliver safe, decent, effective healthcare for offenders.</p><p> </p><p>Over 4,000 new prison staff are now in post, enabling us to implement initiatives like the key worker role, which allows staff to dedicate time to support individual prisoners. These initiatives and others mean that we will be able to better support individuals with mental health needs in prison.</p><p> </p><p>We have also agreed a Community Sentence Treatment Requirement (CSTR) protocol to support the greater use of community sentences with treatment requirements, including Mental Health Treatment Requirements helping to improve access to treatment for offenders who need it and divert vulnerable offenders away from custody where appropriate. The protocol is currently being piloted at five sites and last month we announced the extension of the programme to include Greater Manchester and London.</p><p> </p><p>The context of how health and justice partners work together to improve mental health provision, and indeed other health issues that that might impact on an individual’s ability to engage with rehabilitation, in both custody and the community, will be set out further in the joint MoJ/ DHSC Health and Justice Plan, which was announced on 20<sup>th</sup> June.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 10/07/2019 16:43:46 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

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	registered interest
	date	23/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the number of prisoners with long-term health conditions in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	257755
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice does not hold information on the number of prisoners with long-term health conditions. NHS England commission health services in prison and include questions on long-term health conditions in the reception and secondary health screen which all prisoners receive.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 05/06/2019 15:44:12 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain