HC Deb 12 December 1997 vol 302 cc696-7W
Helen Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects the joint Prison Service/Department of Health working group set up in response to the 1996 Report "Patient or Prisoner" to complete its work; and if he will publish its conclusions. [20387]

Ms Quin

The joint Prison Service/Department of Health Working Group is expected to put forward options and recommendations by May 1998 for consideration by Ministers. The Working Group's conclusions will be published in due course.

Helen Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the names of those serving on the joint Prison Service/Department of Health working group set up in response to the 1996 Report by Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons, Patient or Prisoner. [20386]

Ms Quin

The membership of the joint Prison Service/Department of Health working group is as follows:

Prison Service Department of Health

  • Dr. Graham Winyard, Medical Director, NHS—joint Group Chairman
  • Mr. Martin Brown, Ms Andrea Humphrey, mental health policy
  • Mr. Mike Farrar, medical services policy
  • Dr. Alison Evans, Director of Public Health, Wakefield Health Authority
  • Professor John Ashton, Regional Director of Public Health, Northwest Regional Office of the NHS
  • Dr. Neil Squires (as for Professor Ashton)
  • Dr. Gillian Fairfield, Health Services Directorate, NHS Executive
  • Mr. Malcolm Rae, Nursing Officer, Department of Health.

Her Majesty's Prison Service

  • Dr. Mike Longfield, Director of Health Care, Her Majesty's Prison Service—joint Group Chairman
  • Dr. Mary Piper, Acting Head, Health Policy, Standards and Audit Group, Directorate of Health Care (DHC)
  • Mr. Savas Hadjipavlou, Business Manager, DHC Mrs. Anna Howard, Contracts Manager, DHC
  • Mrs. Fenella Tayler, policy on delivery of health care, DHC—Group Secretary
  • Mrs. Yvonne Willmott, Nursing Advise, DHC
  • Mr. Colin Edwards, Area Nursing Adviser, Directorate of Operations South, Prison Service
  • Dr. Vicy Foot, Health Care Adviser, Directorate of Operations North, Prison Service
  • Dr. Jim Mullen, Governor of Her Majesty's Prison Long Lartin, Evesham
  • Mr. Peter Earnshaw, Governor of Her Majesty's Prison Manchester
  • Dr. Roger Ralli, Principal Medical Officer, Her Majesty's Young Offender Institution, Glen Parva, Leicester
  • Mr Kieron Taylor, Head of Health Care, Her Majesty's Prison Elmley, Sheerness
  • Dr. John Reed, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons (as observer)
  • Dr. Liz Ryman, Home Office, Comprehensive Spending Review, (as observer)