HC Deb 06 November 1991 vol 198 c121W
Mr. Bellotti

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners in the United Kingdom are receiving psychiatric care; how many of these were previously in long-term psychiatric hospitals; how many of those who receive psychiatric care or were previously in long term psychiatric hospitals have been imprisoned for crimes of violence; and what percentage of the prison population received psychiatric care in each of the last five years.

Mrs. Rumbold

The information requested is not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.