Question follow-through · 95289

Continuing Care: Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve continuity of care for people with drug treatment needs on release from prison, including ensuring effective links between prison and community drug t

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 27 Nov 2025
Target answer date: 1 Dec 2025
Answer: 11 Dec 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Votes on this topic

Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026

These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.

Recorded timeline

27 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve continuity of care for people with drug treatment needs on release from prison, including ensuring effective links between prison and community drug t
1 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Dec 2025
Answer published
Everyone who has drug and/or alcohol treatment needs is assessed in prison and offered a referral to a treatment or recovery service on release. The Department works closely with national partners and with local authorities to improve continuity of care b...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Mental Health Services: Rural Areas

8 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to mental health services, particularly for young people and those in rural areas.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Mental Health Services: Men

8 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to provide sustainable funding for grassroots men’s mental health initiatives.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Mental Health Services: Men

8 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of volunteer-led men’s mental health groups on mental wellbeing and NHS services.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prescriptions: Fees and Charges

2 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to review the medical exemption list, in the context of their being no formal review since 1968.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prescriptions: Fees and Charges

2 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what specific clinical, economic, or operational thresholds (e.g., prevalence shifts, new NICE guidance, excess out of pocket costs) would need to be met to trigger a formal review of the medical e

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Blood Cancer: Medical Treatments

13 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure NHS patients with Mantle Cell Lymphoma will continue to be able to receive the CAR-T treatment Tecartus after it has exited the Cancer Drugs Fund.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Blood Cancer: Medical Treatments

13 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the forthcoming National Cancer Plan will contain measures to ensure patients with blood cancer can access lifesaving and cutting-edge new therapies via the NHS.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Epilepsy

10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people in England with epilepsy who experience tonic-clonic seizures and are not seizure-free despite treatment.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Cancer: Clinical Trials

13 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of trends in the proportion of Phase II and Phrase III in commercial oncology clinical trials.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Clinical Trials: Genomics

13 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of setting up a database of genomic-enabled trials.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Palliative Care

21 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for an update on the progress of the Palliative and End of Life Care Modern Service Framework.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Pathology: Consultants

25 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to improve the level of consultant staffing in pathology departments to meed the target of 98% of histopathology tests to be reported within 10 days by March 2029, as sp