§ 37. Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what further steps he proposes to take to ensure that those mentally ill prisoners requiring detention in hospital under the Mental Health Act 1959 are transferred to hospitals.
§ Mr. Merlyn ReesI do not think that at present I can usefully add to the reply given to the question by my hon. Friend on 12 February. Prison medical officers are urged to seek the transfer of prisoners under section 72 of the Mental Health Act 1959 in any case in which they think this justified.—[Vol. 962, c. 378–9.]