HC Deb 12 April 1989 vol 150 cc548-9W
Mr. Goodlad

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information he has on the mental illness history of current occupants of Her Majesty's prisons in England and Wales; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to a question by the hon. Member for The Wrekin (Mr. Grocott) on 8 December 1988 at column283.

Mr. Goodlad

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information is collected by his Department about(a) the medical and (b) the mental illness history of persons found guilty of crimes by the courts; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

Information is not collected centrally about the medical history, physical or mental, of persons found guilty by the courts.