HC Deb 18 July 1989 vol 157 c129W
Mr. Hayward

To ask the Secretary of State for Health who is responsible for providing clothing to persons transferred from the prison system to the care of the National Health Service under the provisions of the Mental Health Act 1983, as a detained patient.

Mr. Freeman

Prisoners transferred to the care of the National Health Service under the provisions of the Mental Health Act 1983 become patients. Such patients bring their private clothing with them from prison but health authorities are expected to provide clothing for those patients who are unable to provide it from their own resources and who are not obtaining it from any other source.