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Mental Health Services: Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps are being taken to improve mental health support for prisoners.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
3 Jul 2026
Target answer date
7 Jul 2026
Answer
8 Jul 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Jul 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps are being taken to improve mental health support for prisoners.

  2. 7 Jul 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Jul 2026

    Answer published

    NHS England commissions prison health care services into every prison in England to the equivalence of the community. NHS England’s Service Specification for integrated mental health services in prisons states that patients within secure settings should r...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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