§ Mr. Berminghamasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what figures are kept by the prison department of the number of mentally handicapped people in prison; how such people are defined for the purpose of keeping such figures; and if he will provide such figures for the last three years, broken down by age, sex and prison.
§ Mr. MellorFigures are kept for the number of prisoners assessed by prison medical officers as severely mentally impaired, and mentally impaired for the purposes of part III of the Mental Health Act 1983. Prior to the enactment of the Mental Health (Amendment) Act 1982 (consolidated in the 1983 Act) the equivalent classifications were severely subnormal and subnormal.
On 31 March 1984 there was one severely mentally impaired male prisoner aged 20 held in Swansea prison.
The number of subnormal mentally impaired prisoners on 31 March for the last three years, broken down by age, sex and establishment are as follows:
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31 March 1982 Establishment Subnormal Age Sex Ashford 1 20 Male Blundeston 2 29 Male 25 Male Cardiff 1 34 Male Cookham Wood 1 37 Female Dartmoor 1 38 Male Gartree 2 27 Male 25 Male Glen Parva 1 20 Male Gloucester 1 34 Male Holloway 1 35 Female Leicester 1 28 Male Lewes 2 25 Male 19 Male Oxford 2 21 Male 21 Male Reading 1 36 Male
Establishment Subnormal Age Sex Stafford 2 42 Male 24 Male Swansea 1 21 Male Wandsworth 2 30 Male 31 Male Winchester 1 36 Male Wormwood Scrubs 1 23 Male TOTAL 24
31 March 1983 Establishment Subnormal Age Sex Ashford 1 18 Male Bedford 1 18 Male Brixton 1 24 Male Bullwood Hall 1 19 Female Dartmoor 1 39 Male Gartree 1 26 Male Glen Parva 1 19 Male Holloway 6 26 Female 20 Female 38 Female 34 Female 21 Female 38 Female Maidstone 1 45 Male Manchester 2 20 Male 37 Male Norwich 2 50 Male 35 Male Onley 2 20 Male 20 Male Pucklechurch 1 22 Female Reading 1 47 Male Styal 2 21 Female 30 Female Wakefield 1 37 Male Wandsworth 2 39 Male 23 Male Winchester 1 17 Male TOTAL 28
31 March 1984 Establishment Mentally Impaired Age Sex Holloway 10 28 Female 19 Female 18 Female 24 Female 24 Female 20 Female 39 Female 25 Female 28 Female 23 Female Lewes 1 27 Male Lincoln 1 26 Male Manchester 4 18 Male 26 Male 20 Male 47 Male Pucklechurch 2 22 Female 33 Female Risley 1 20 Male Styal 1 31 Female Wakefield 2 38 Male 21 Male Wymott 2 36 Male 21 Male TOTAL 24