§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions since January 1990 inmates at Her Majesty's Prison, Holloway, have been(a) detained in a strip cell and (b) restrained by body belts for (i) medical or (ii) non-medical purposes. [8440]
§ Miss WiddecombeResponsibility for this matter has been delegated to the temporary Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Richard Tilt to Mr. Martin Redmond, dated 22 January 1996:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the number of occasions inmates at Holloway prison have been detained in a strip cell and restrained by bodybelts for medical or non-medical purposes.The number of occasions since January 1990 that prisoners have been restrained are shown in the attached tables.
Special cell Year Non-medical 1990 9 1991 1 1992 13 1993 13 1994 17 1995 14
Body belt Year Medical Non-medical 1990 0 0 1991 0 0 1992 0 0 1993 0 0 1994 0 1 1995 1 1