Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee
12th Report - Prison health
HC 963
Published 1 November 2018
Health and Social Care Committee Prison healthcare inquiry Report on parliament.uk ↗
At a glanceGovernment response published 14 January 2019
The government's response
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.
The Government accepts or welcomes much of the Committee's direction on prison health, but does not accept that prisoners are routinely held in unsafe or unsanitary conditions and declines some specific recommendations.
- On prison reform, it "accepts the recommendation" that reform plans should place greater emphasis on health, wellbeing, care and recovery.
- It declines to commit to a date for prisoners to be unlocked for a set time, saying "a single target would not be helpful" because prisons differ.
- It does not agree that an independent evaluation of measures to act on HMIP recommendations "would be valuable at this stage", citing the need for time to embed.
- On liaison and diversion, it says full geographical coverage in England is planned "by March 2020", with full funding scheduled by April 2021.
What the committee recommended
No recommendations or conclusions have been extracted from this report. This is normal for correspondence and for special reports.
Sources
- 12th Report - Prison health ↗The committee's report, HC 963, parliament.uk
- Government Response to the Committee's twelfth Report: Prison health ↗The government's response, 14 January 2019, parliament.uk