Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the report, Preventing suicide in England: A cross-government outcomes strategy to save lives, published on 9 January 2017, whether his Department has evidence of an increase in the number of vulnerable individuals in prisons in the last five years.

There is a not a single measure of the vulnerability of individuals in prison. NHS England is responsible for commissioning health services for prisoners which meets their holistic mental and physical health needs.