HC Deb 23 October 1986 vol 102 c963W
Mr. Bermingham

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) non-white and (b) white people were assaulted in prison in 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1985.

Mr. Mellor

Information on offences against prison discipline of gross personal violence and of assault punished in prison department establishments is given annually in "Prison Statistics, England and Wales," (tables 9 (g), (h) and (i) of the latest issue, for 1985, Cmnd. 9903) but no analysis by ethnic origin of the victim is available.