Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the adequacy of mental health assessments in HM Prison Strangeways, Manchester.

Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust has provided healthcare in HMP Manchester since April 2015.

The Mental Health Inreach Team (MHIT) provides a specialist, comprehensive mental health service for prisoners at HMP Manchester.

MHIT staff use the Care Programme Approach to mental health assessment and care planning when working with prisoners. This includes liaising with any family and carers, services outside the prison, including community mental health services in the prisoner's home location and the National Probation Service and Criminal Justice Liaison Team, to ensure that continuity of planning and care occurs as people move in and out of prison.