§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the number of assaults that have taken place on prison officers during the past five years, the number of restraints on male or female prisoners and the number of prisoners who lost days of remission during the same period.
§ Mr. MellorThe readily available information on assaults on prison officers and forfeitures of remission is summarised in the tables. Detailed breakdowns of offences and punishments are published annually in "Prison Statistics, England and Wales" (chapter 9 of the volume for 1984, Cmnd. 9622). Statistics on the use of restraints in the years 1981 to 84 are published in table 10.3 of "Prison Statistics, England and Wales 1984." Statistics for 1980 were published in table 10.6 of the volume for 1980 (Cmnd. 8372), but are less reliable and not comparable with those for subsequent years because a special exercise to check the corresponding figures for 1981 and 1982 revealed some errors, and corresponding checks cannot be made on the figures for earlier years.
§ The Solicitor-GeneralThe information is as follows:
Year Number of Nights Hotel Cost £ 1981 51 22,461 1982 71 39,387 1983 90 45,209 1984 107 56,130 1985 (to date) 105 50,411