Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help prison staff support prisoners with Parkinson's disease.

No estimate of the number of prisoners with Parkinson’s disease has been made in 2017.

Commissioning of health services (based on a Health Needs Assessment) is carried out by local Health and Justice commissioning teams. All NHS England Health and Justice commissioners work closely with individual establishments within the secure and detained estate, to commission and procure health care providers to provide a range of high quality services which meet the needs of prisoners, this would include services for prisoners with Parkinson’s disease.

HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) works closely with NHS England and local government partners to provide services for all those with care and support needs. HMPPS is committed to ensuring that all prisoners are supported and prisons will make adjustments to ensure the needs of prisoners are met. Both health and social care services in prisons are arranged to be equivalent to services available in the community.