Part of The Secretary of State Was Asked – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 7 March 2017.
Phillip Lee
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice
12:00,
7 March 2017
We are working hard on continuity of care in the transmission of notes from the community into the custodial estate so that we can improve our pick-up of mental health problems when prisoners arrive. There is ongoing training of staff so that if mental health symptoms develop within prison they can be spotted and the appropriate care provided.
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
