Prisons: Health Services

(asked on )

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2018 to Question 127288 on prisons: health services, in what format information on the funding of healthcare in prisons is held.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 5th March 2018

The NHS England Health and Justice budget covers many different types of services not just healthcare in prisons.

The budget includes costs for Liaison and Diversion services, Sexual Assault Referral Centres, and some aspects of clinical commissioning groups and specialised commissioning funding. The costs for prison healthcare services are not separately identified within this budget.

The total costs reported for Health and Justice since NHS England took over commissioning responsibility in 2013 are as follows:

Year

Costs in £ million

2013/14

429.9

2014/15

449.5

2015/16

483.0

2016/17

509.0

Reticulating Splines