§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions a body belt was used on a prison inmate in each prison in England and Wales during 1995. [32478]
§ Miss WiddecombeResponsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from A. J. Pearson to Mr. Tom Cox, dated 17 June 1996:
The Home Secretary has asked me, in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your recent Question about the number of occasions a body belt was used on a prison inmate in each prison in England and Wales during 1995.294WThe number of applications of body belt restraints under rule 46(1) of the Prison Rules 1964 and rule 49(1) of the Young Offender Institution Rules 1988 are shown in the attached table.
Body belt restraints1 applied to violent or refractory inmates in Prison Service establishments, by establishment, 19952 Establishment Number of body belt applications Local prisons/remand centres Bedford 1 Belmarsh 4 Birmingham 2 Blakenhurst 1 Brinsford 1 Bristol 3 Bullingdon 1 Canterbury 1 Chelmsford 7 Doncaster 2 Elmley 2 Highdown 2 Highpoint 1 Holloway 1 Hull 2 Leicester 1 Lincoln 3 Norwich 2 Rochester 1 Shrewsbury 1 Wandsworth 2 Winchester 4 Woodhill 1 Wormwood Scrubs 5 Training prisons Acklington 2 Albany 2 Blundeston 4 Featherstone 3 Frankland 3 Full Sutton 3 Littlehey 2 Long Lartin 2 Maidstone 2 Moorland 1 Parkhurst 5 Stocken 1 Swaleside 6 Wakefield 5 Wayland 2 Whitemoor 1 Total 95 1. Under rule 46(1), Prison Rules 1964; Rule 49(1), Young Offender Institution Rules 1988.
2. Provisional figures.