Question follow-through · 91843

Health Services: Prisons and Young Offender Institutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to ensure (a) equality of access to and (b) quality of healthcare provision across the (i) women’s and (ii) Children and Young People's estate.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
17 Nov 2025
Target answer date
20 Nov 2025
Answer
25 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to ensure (a) equality of access to and (b) quality of healthcare provision across the (i) women’s and (ii) Children and Young People's estate.

  2. 20 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 25 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    To improve health and social care outcomes for all women in prison and upon their release, NHS England and His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service commissioned the National Women’s Prisons Health and Social Care Review. The review’s report identified a...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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