HC Deb 28 October 1986 vol 103 c87W
Mr. Tom Cox

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the number of attacks by inmates in Her Majesty's prisons against prison officers in each of the last three years.

Mr. Mellor

Information on offences against prison discipline of gross personal violence or assault on a prison officer is given annually in "Prison Statistics, England and Wales" (tables 9(g), (h) and (i) of the latest issue, for 1985, (Cmnd. 9903)).