§ Sir J. Hobsonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will republish the accurate figures of the table of Assaults on Prison Officers 1959 to 1964, now admitted to have been erroneous.
§ Miss BaconI very much regret that the figures given to the House on 8th February, 1965, were inaccurate. The following tables, in substitution for that shown in columns 34 to 36 (Written Answers) of the OFFICIAL REPORT for 8th February, 1965, give the most comprehensive information which at this date is available for the years in question. The original table referred to prisons only: I have now included borstals.
OFFENCES, INCLUDING ATTEMPTED OFFENCES, OF VIOLENCE AGAINST PRISON OFFICERS 1959–64 A. In Prisons (1) (2) (3) Year Total number of offences dealt with under the Prison Rules Offences either involving gross personal violence or serious enough to be dealt with by prosecution Year in the courts 1959 223 23 1960 222 25 1961 238 33 1962 218 21 1963 160 44 1964 — 30 Note:
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- (1) Figures showing the total number of offences for 1964 are not yet available, but the figure shown in column (3) opposite that year is complete.
- (2) Figures in column (3) for the years 1959–61 inclusive exclude Holloway and Wakefield, for which the information no longer exists.
- (3) Figures in column (3) for the years 1959–61 inclusive include, for Wandsworth prison, offences of gross personal violence but not any offences in that prison which may have been dealt with by prosecution in the courts, as the information was not specially recorded.
B. In Borstals (1) (2) (3) Year Total number of offences dealt with under the Borstal Rules Offences either involving gross personal violence or serious enough to be dealt with by prosecution in the courts 1959 40 7 1960 46 5 1961 27 4 1962 34 11 1963 65 6 1964 — 11 Note: Figures showing the total number of offences for 1964 are not yet available, but the figure shown in column (3) opposite that year is complete.