§ Mr. SheermanTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whow many assaults on prison officers occurred in each prison establishment in each of the last 10 years.
§ Mr. MellorThe readily available information for 1988 is given in the table "Charges of assault on which prisoners were found guilty on adjudication in Prison Service establishments in England and Wales in 1988: by establishment and type of assault", a copy of which has been placed in the Library. Figures for earlier years could be provided only at disproportionate cost. For these years published annual statistics of offences punished at each establishment give the information on gross personal violence to an officer but that on assaults does not distinguish between assaults on officers and assaults on others (table 9.9 to 9.12 of "Prison statistics England and Wales 1987" (Cm. 547), copies of which are in the Library). However, the information requested is summarised by type of establishment (tables 9.13 to 9.15 of the 1987 volume).