HC Deb 17 May 1984 vol 60 c209W
22. Mr. Tom Cox

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the number of times over the last 12 months that body belt restraints have been used in prisons in England and Wales.

Mr. Hurd

Provisional figures for 1983, the latest period for which information is available, indicate that body belts were used on 113 occasions.

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