Prisoners: Mental Illness
(asked on 9th December 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to collect information centrally on how many people diagnosed with a mental health condition receive a custodial sentence.
This question was answered on 17th December 2015
The Department does not collect such data centrally.
Health and wellbeing needs assessments (HNAs) provide information on the estimated prevalence of mental illness in individual prisons. All prisons are required to produce HNAs, and the Department will discuss with NHS England the potential to publish information on prison health at a national level.