Parliament Workbench
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Written Question · S4W-26510 · Session 4

What smoking cessation services are available to prisoners.

Answered Asked by Alison McInnes LD Lodged 1 Jul 2015

The question

To ask the Scottish Government what smoking cessation services are available to prisoners.

The answer

Answered by Maureen Watt on 24 Jul 2015 · 23 days after it was lodged, on time

Since 2013-14, funding for the provision of smoking cessation services in prisons is contained within the smoking cessation allocations to the relevant NHS boards listed below. It is for individual NHS boards, in partnership with the Scottish Prison Service, to determine the delivery of cessation services for their local prison population. To support this, NHS Health Scotland published a national prison smoking cessation service specification on 30 June 2015. This specification sets out performance measures and service requirements to provide a consistent and high quality prison smoking cessation service. This will also provide a foundation for the Scottish Government requirement for the Scottish Prison Service to agree plans by the end of 2015 which set out the process for making Scottish prisons smoke-free. The national prison smoking cessation service specification is available at: http://www.healthscotland.com/documents/25618.aspx
NHS board
Prisons
Grampian
HMP – YOI Grampian
Lothian
Addiewell
Edinburgh
Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Barlinnie
Greenock
Low Moss
Forth Valley
Cornton Vale
Glenochil
Polmont
Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries
Highland
Inverness
Ayrshire and Arran
Kilmarnock
Tayside
Castle Huntly
Perth
Lanarkshire
Shotts

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S4W-26510 by reference.