Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Rory Stewart and Eleanor Smith

Tuesday 23rd January 2018 Commons Chamber

[Rory Stewart]

This is a hugely important issue for Members on both sides of the House. We know absolutely that extremism—we can see this in France, and we of course saw it in Iraq—can be driven in a prison setting. The problem is not simply the 230 prisoners arrested for terrorist offences, but others who can be influenced when they are in a prison setting. We are working very hard with colleagues in the Home Office on this issue, and it will be a priority for the Secretary of State and me during our time in office.

[Eleanor Smith (Wolverhampton South West) (Lab)]

T6. Does the Minister believe that the funding gap in the NHS is having an impact on healthcare provision in our prisons?