§ Mr. McKelveyTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many prisoners in Scotland have received medical care outside prison in the past year; and how many have received medical care in the private sector.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonDuring the period April 1989 to March 1990, the latest for which figures are available, 246 prisoners were admitted to public hospitals. Central records are not kept of the number of prisoners who attended external medical facilities as outpatients, nor of whether any of these were private sector facilities.