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<p>Under sections 47/49 of the Mental Health Act 1983, the Secretary of State may
authorise by warrant the transfer of sentenced prisoners to a mental health hospital,
where he is satisfied that the criteria for detention are met by the aforementioned
Act. Thereby, and for the duration of the period in hospital, the transferred prisoner
becomes what is known as a restricted patient.</p><p>The requested data in the tables
below are taken from an electronic casework system. Snapshot data of restricted patients
in hospital are available only at the end of each year. We have provided this information
in Table 1 for 2019-2022. We are unable to recreate snapshot data, for the start of
each of the last 20 quarters, due to limitations of the case management system.</p><p><strong>Table
1: Population of offenders serving a sentence of imprisonment for public protection
(IPP) detained in hospital as a restricted patient on 31 December in each year from
2019-2023.</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Population
of IPP Restricted Patients </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>272</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>276</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>292</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>262</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>241</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>Table
2:</strong> <strong>The number of offenders serving an IPP sentence who have been
transferred from prison to secure hospitals on mental health grounds in each year
since 2020.</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number
of transfers</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>44</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>Notes
</strong></p><ol><li>These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems
which, as with any large-scale recording systems are subject to possible errors with
data entry and processing.</li><li>Where patients are admitted more than once, each
admission is counted separately. This information does not count number of individual
patients but instances of transfers.</li></ol><p><strong>Data Source: Public Protection
Unit Database (PPUD)</strong></p>
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