Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to collect and publish information centrally on the number of people diagnosed with a mental health condition who receive a custodial sentence.

There are currently no plans to collect and publish information centrally on the number of people diagnosed with a mental health condition who receive a custodial sentence.

NHS England collects information about people in prison with a mental health condition as part of the Health and Justice Indicators of Performance (HJIP). The quarterly HJIP data is currently distributed and shared with health commissioners who share with providers and prison governors, but it is not published on the NHS England website.