Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the provision of healthcare services to prisoners in private prisons.
No such formal assessment has been made.
For the eight private prisons in England where NHS England commissions healthcare services, the same contract and performance management structures are in place that are employed across the public sector prison estate to ensure adequate service provision. These arrangements are managed regionally through quarterly contract and performance management meetings. A local partnership board structure and a local partnership agreement underpin these arrangements.