Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many mental health staff are deployed at each prison in England and Wales.

The information requested is not collected centrally.

It is expected that all prisons have access to a full range of mental health professionals as per services within the community.

Commissioning of health services (based on a Health Needs Assessment) is carried out by local Health and Justice commissioning teams, of which there are 10 across England. All NHS England Health and Justice commissioners work closely with individual establishments within the secure and detained estate, to commission and procure health care providers to provide a range of high quality services which meet the needs of prisoners.