HC Deb 19 February 1987 vol 110 cc769-70W
Mr. Soley

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases of hepatitis A and B have been notified at Lincoln prison.

Mr. Mellor

In the last statistical year (ended 31 March 1986) eight cases of hepatitis B (five of them acute cases) were reported to the Prison Department. No case of hepatitis A was reported.