HC Deb 03 December 1998 vol 321 c253W
Mr. Tredinnick

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of HM prisons currently provide complementary medical services for prisoners; how many others have requested such provision; and if he will make a statement. [62198]

Mr. George Howarth

Thirty-one Prison Service establishments have reported that they provide some form of complementary medical services to prisoners; and a further eight have said that they have plans to do so. The Prison Service is planning to issue guidance on the place of complementary therapies alongside conventional health services, as well as the range of treatments that it would be appropriate to offer in the prison context.