Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prisoners have waited for more than 14 days for a transfer to hospital under the Mental Health Act 1983 in each month since April 2015.

Departmental guidance was published in 2011 on best practice to achieve urgent transfers within 14 days. NHS England continues to work with prison healthcare and secure mental health providers to improve processes so that this can be achieved.

NHS England collects data at a national level from Health and Justice Indicators of Performance on prisoner 14 day transfers to hospital under the Mental Health Act 1983.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave her to Question 45018 on 8 September 2016 for NHS England’s data for the financial years (FY) 2015/16 and the first quarter of 2016/17.

The latest data for the second quarter 2016/17 is presented in the table: