Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the case of tuberculosis diagnosed at Young Offender Institution Swinfen Hall in October 2014 is directly linked to the three cases identified at the same site between March and May 2015.

An investigation led by Public Health England was undertaken at HMP & YOI Swinfen Hall into the possibility that a case of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) diagnosed in a prisoner in October 2014 was epidemiologically linked to three cases subsequently diagnosed during 2015. The outcome of the investigation has suggested that the cases could be linked, which has informed subsequent contact screening, and on-going efforts on raising awareness and early recognition of TB symptoms not only in this prison, but across the prison estate especially those receiving transfers from HMP & YOI Swinfen Hall.