HC Deb 24 July 2002 vol 389 c1529W
Dr. Murrison

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of prisoners receive(a) anti-psychotic—medication and (b) atypical antipsychotics. [68218]

Mr. Hilary Benn

This information is not available in precisely the form requested. A survey of mental ill health in the prison population of England and Wales, undertaken in 1997 by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), showed that four per cent. of remanded and two per cent. of sentenced men were taking anti-psychotic medicine. The comparable figures for women were 14 per cent. and eight per cent. respectively.

The ONS did not collect information about which prisoners were being treated with atypical antipsychotics.