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Written Question
Prisons: Health Services
Tuesday 24th January 2017

Asked by: Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to put (a) prisoner health care and (b) individual prisoner health care services out to competitive tender.

Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford

NHS England has commissioned prison healthcare in all publicly-run prisons in England since April 2013. Regional commissioners have been mandated since that date to commission these services from National Health Service, voluntary sector or private sector providers, using a standard competitive NHS procurement process.