The Bishop of Gloucester received the following written answers on 19th January 2022:
The Lord Bishop of Gloucester asked Her Majesty’s Government how many women in prison aged (1) 18–24, or (2) 25 years or older, have been (a) in receipt of mental health care, or (b) referred to mental health support, whilst in custody.
Lord Kamall (Con): This information is not collected in the format requested.
However, NHS England and NHS Improvement have advised that, as at 30 November 2021, the records of nine women aged 18 to 24 years old and 324 women aged 25 years old and over in prison indicate a severe and enduring mental health condition according to Quality and Outcomes Framework definitions and are likely to have received related intervention for their condition. This represents women presenting with significant levels of mental ill-health requiring specialist mental health service interventions and does not include women in custody who have accessed primary care mental health services and are treated through normal primary care provision for lower level presentations.
The Lord Bishop of Gloucester asked Her Majesty’s Government how many women in prison aged (1) 18–24, or (2) 25 years or older, experienced physical restraint by one or more members of staff in each of the last 10 years.
Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (Con): We can only provide the requested data on use of force incidents involving women in prison aged (1) 18–24, or (2) 25 years or older, by one or more members of staff for the period of year ending March 2019 to year ending March 2021. This is detailed in the attached Excel spreadsheet.
We cannot access the requested data for the previous seven years as we did not collate the information on an individual case basis and are unable to do so retrospectively.
Every use of physical force is reviewed and prison officers receive appropriate training to ensure that it is only used when necessary, reasonable and proportionate.
The Lord Bishop of Gloucester asked Her Majesty’s Government:
- how many adjudications were received by women in prison aged (1) 18–24, or (2) 25 years or older, for each of the last 10 years.
- how many adjudications were received by men in prison aged (1) 18–24, or (2) 25 years or older, for each of the last 10 years.
Lord Wolfson of Tredegar: The prisoner discipline system upholds justice in prisons and ensures incidents of prison rule-breaking have consequences. The Ministry of Justice monitors adjudication outcomes by offence, age, gender, ethnicity, religion and adjudicator, this data is published quarterly and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly(opens in a new tab). The specific information requested can be found in the table attached [on Hansard].
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