Freedom of Information Team
Department of Health and Social Care
39 Victoria Street
London SW1H 0EU
www.gov.uk/dhsc
Mr Daniel Woodward
By email to
: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
8 August 2024
Dear Mr Woodward,
Freedom of Information Request Reference FOI-1519352
Thank you for your request dated 19 July to the Department of Health and Social Care
(DHSC), a copy of which can be found in the accompanying annex.
Your request has been handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
DHSC does not hold the information you have requested.
You may wish, however, to consider contacting NHS England, as it may hold some of the
information you have requested.
NHS England assumed responsibility for commissioning healthcare services in prisons in
2013. Before that, it was the responsibility of the then Department of Health (DH) but, any
expenditure information held on such services was not separately identifiable. Full
responsibility for budgets and administration of healthcare in prisons transferred to DH in
2006 as a result of the NHS Act 2006. The then HM Prison Service was responsible prior
to this.
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www.england.nhs.uk/contact-us/foi.
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Freedom of Information Team
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx
Annex
From: Daniel Woodward <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2024 11:15 AM
To: FreedomofInformation <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Prison Healthcare Expenditure
Dear Department of Health and Social Care,
Could you please provide an annual breakdown of expenditure on healthcare
services/provision in prisons in England between 2005 and 2023. If you such data is not
available throughout this period, please provide it for the years for which that data is
available.
Yours faithfully,
Daniel Woodward
