HC Deb 17 April 1989 vol 151 c22W
Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many times a body belt has been used on an inmate in prison in England and Wales in each of the last three years.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

The information is published annually in "Prison Statistics, England and Wales 1988" (table 10.2 of the latest issue, for 1987, Cm 547), copies of which are held in the Library.