§ Dr. Lynne JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what plans there are to improve prisoners' access to condoms; [48762]
(2) what plans there are to include condoms in the health pilot schemes currently providing disinfectant tablets to Class IV drug users in prisons. [48761]
§ Ms QuinPrison doctors are able to prescribe condoms to individual prisoners, on application, where, in their clinical judgment, there is a known risk of HIV infection. We have no present plans to make condoms more freely available to prisoners, either as part of the pilot project for the reintroduction of disinfecting tablets or generally.