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Epilepsy Services

My hon. Friend makes an important point. That balance between confidentiality and ensuring proper care for people with a health problem—be it epilepsy or anything else—is well known to all Members of Parliament, and it is a difficult balance to strike. Obviously, confidentiality is important to those in prison. One of the report’s further recommendations is that the Health Committee should consider an inquiry into the provision of health services for people with epilepsy in England. I would like such an inquiry to include the important issue of the provision of services for prisoners with epilepsy. The last key recommendation is that the Government should accept that for many decades, there has been considerable under-investment in what is a much-neglected condition, and that it is time for the Department of Health to put right the wrongs of the past.