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Written Question
Prisoners: Drugs
Monday 3rd July 2023

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many prisoners were transferred from prison to hospital due to a drug overdose in each of the last three years for which data is available.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

This information requested is not held centrally.


Written Question
Prisons: Drugs
Tuesday 27th June 2023

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of tackling substance misuse in prisons in each year since 2010.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

The information requested is not separately identifiable due to the way services are commissioned across the secure and detained estate.


Written Question
Ambulance Services: Prisons
Monday 19th December 2022

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of phone calls made from prisons to hospitals requesting ambulance assistance for drug related issues in each of the last three years.

Answered by Will Quince

No specific estimate has been made.


Written Question
Ambulance Services: Prisons
Monday 19th December 2022

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of ambulance callouts to prisons to treat drug-related instances in each of the last three years.

Answered by Will Quince

No specific estimate has been made.


Written Question
Prisoners: Drugs
Monday 19th December 2022

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of prisoners sent to hospital for drug-related issues in each of the last three years.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

No specific estimate has been made, as this data is not held in the format requested.


Written Question
Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act 2018
Thursday 8th December 2022

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any sections of the Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act 2018 are not yet in force.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

Sections 6, 7 and 8 of the Act are yet to be commenced. We are working with NHS England, NHS Digital, the Care Quality Commission and other partners to determine how these sections can be commenced as soon as possible, while ensuring mental health trusts are prepared and able to meet the requirements of the Act.

It is already mandatory for National Health Service (NHS) organisations or trusts and independent hospitals (where they are providing NHS funded care), to submit data on the use of force to the NHS Digital Mental Health Services Data Set. Therefore, many of the data fields required under Section 6 and 7 are already being recorded and, where necessary, reported by Mental Health Units.


Written Question
Youth Custody: Medical Examinations
Thursday 14th July 2022

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that leaders of institutions in the youth estate (a) review the data generated by the Comprehensive Health Assessment Tool, (b) evaluate its efficacy in all areas and (c) ensure that it generates equitable access to services across ethnic groups.

Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education

NHS England has statutory responsibility for the commissioning of health services in secure and detained settings, including for the children and young people secure estate and this is undertaken by regional health and justice teams. Following the publication of ‘The Lammy Review: An independent review into the treatment of, and outcomes for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic individuals in the Criminal Justice System’, NHS England has aimed to enable central data extraction, including from the Comprehensive Health Assessment Tool, to review this data.

During 2021/22, data on those with protected characteristics has been collected for use by the adult secure estate. This approach is being developed during 2022/23 to inform the continuous improvement of care of children and young people in secure settings.


Written Question
Clipper Logistics
Thursday 24th March 2022

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the value is of the contract between NHS Supply Chain’s Logistics Service Provider and Clipper Logistics from 1 October 2021 until 31 March 2022.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

A table showing the monthly cost of the Clipper Logistics contract with NHS Supply Chain’s service provider, Unipart Logistics, from March 2020 to September 2021 is attached.

A new subcontract was entered into on 1 October 2021 and is fixed until 31 March 2022. The cost of this contract from October 2021 to January 2022 is £30.82 million. The forecast expenditure from February to 31 March 2022 is £14.1 million.


Written Question
Clipper Logistics
Thursday 24th March 2022

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a monthly breakdown of the cost of Clipper Logistics' contract with NHS Supply Chain Logistics' service provider to support the additional demand of covid and PPE between March 2020 to September 2021.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

A table showing the monthly cost of the Clipper Logistics contract with NHS Supply Chain’s service provider, Unipart Logistics, from March 2020 to September 2021 is attached.

A new subcontract was entered into on 1 October 2021 and is fixed until 31 March 2022. The cost of this contract from October 2021 to January 2022 is £30.82 million. The forecast expenditure from February to 31 March 2022 is £14.1 million.


Written Question
Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act 2018
Monday 13th December 2021

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish his Department's response to the consultation on guidance for the Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act 2018.

Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education

We remain committed to commencing the Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act 2018 and publishing the statutory guidance. The Government’s response to the public consultation on this guidance and the guidance itself will be published shortly.