Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on counselling or therapy in prisons for (a) prisoners and (b) prison staff with post-traumatic stress disorder in (i) 2014, (ii) 2015 and (iii) 2016.

Information on spending on counselling or therapy for prisoners with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is not collected centrally by NHS England.

Spending by the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) on psychological therapies delivered to NOMS’ staff for work related trauma was £22,131.06 in 2014, £150,336.09 in 2015 and £199,690.03 in 2016. NOMS’ data do not identify the proportion of PTSD-related cases within this spend.