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 to hospital for (a) physical and (b) mental health concerns in each year since 2010.

Information is not collected centrally on the number of prisoners transferred to hospital for physical health concerns. Prisoners with mental illness are usually treated by secondary mental health services in prison unless their mental health needs require them to be transferred to hospital, under the Mental Health Act 1983. The following table shows the number of prisoners transferred from prison to hospital under the act, as a restricted patient, each year from 2010 to 2023:

Source: Restricted Patients Statistics, Ministry of Justice.