§ Mr. Dubsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many attacks there have been by one prisoner on another in any penal establishment in each of the last five years.
§ Mr. MellorInformation is not available in the form requested. The following table relates to adjudications in prison department establishments in each of the years 1981 to 1985 where an inmate was charged with an offence of gross personal violence to another inmate, or of assault upon another inmate, or with an attempt to commit such an offence.
515W
1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 Charge dismissed — 1 5 1 4 Sub-total 99 51 37 24 51 Total 2,447 2,190 2,156 1,935 2,098 Corresponding figures for 1986 are not at present available.