High Security Hospitals
(asked on 21st December 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many secure hospital beds are available for (1) male, and (2) female, prisoners in each region of England and Wales.
This question was answered on 9th January 2017
Information on average waiting times over the last 12 months for transfer of prisoners who have been assessed as requiring transfer to a secure hospital is not held in the format requested.
Information on the number of secure beds is not held in the format requested. Secure hospital beds are not specifically allocated to either prisoners or people in the community, but are allocated according to clinical need for all people who need them.