HC Deb 23 November 1992 vol 214 cc465-8W
Mr. Gerrard

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many assaults on prison officers took place between June and November; and at what prisons they occurred.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

The available information relates to offences of assault and attempted assault on a prison officer which were punished under the prison discipline system and is given in the table. Data for offences punished in October and November arc not yet available.

Offences1 of assaulting a prison officer proved at adjudications in Prison Service establishments in England and Wales in June to September 1992: by establishment at which punished
Establishment at which punished Assault Offence Attempted assault2 Total
ALL ESTABLISHMENTS 591 56 647
All male establishments 538 53 591
Remand Centres 59 12 71
Brinsford 6 1 7
Cardiff 1 1
Dorchester 1 1
Exeter 1 1 2
Feltham 18 2 20
Glen Parva 4 1 5
Hindley 3 3 6
Moorland 16 1 17
Stoke Heath 1 1 2
Swansea 1 1
Local prisons 205 17 222
Bedford 3 3
Belmarsh 23 4 27
Birmingham 22 3 25
Bristol 1 1
Brixton 6 6
Bullingdon 8 8
Canterbury 4 4
Cardiff 6 1 7
Chelmsford 8 1 9
Durham 10 10
Elmley 6 6
Exeter 2 2
Gloucester 1 1
Hull 3 3
Leeds 13 13
Leicester 2 2 4
Lincoln 8 8
Liverpool 6 6
Manchester 4 4
Norwich 3 3
Pentonville 15 1 16
Preston 3 1 4
Reading 4 4
Shrewsbury 3 3
Swansea 2 2
Wandsworth 8 3 11
Winchester 16 16
Wolds 4 4
Wormwood Scrubs 11 1 12
Open Prisons 6 1 7
North Sea Camp 2 2
Standford Hill 1 1 2
Sudbury 3 3
Closed Training Prisons 192 16 208
Acklington 5 5
Albany 4 1 5
Blundeston 17 1 18
Camp Hill 3 3
Channings Wood 1 1
Coldingley 5 5
Dartmoor 10 1 11
Erlestoke 2 2
Featherstone 1 1 2
Frankland 5 1 6
Full Sutton 33 1 34
Establishment at which punished Assault Offence Attempted assault2 Total
Garth 13 13
Haverigg 2 2
Highpoint 2 2
Lancaster 1 1
Lindholme 3 3
Littlehey 1 1
Long Lartin 10 1 11
Maidstone 4 4
Norwich (Britannia) 1 1
Nottingham 4 4
Parkhurst 2 2
Portsmouth (Kingston) 1 1
Risley 1 1
Rochester 1 1
Shepton Mallett 4 4
Stafford 13 1 14
Stocken 5 5
Swaleside 14 1 15
The Verne 1 1
Wakefield 3 1 4
Wayland 4 4
Wellingborough 1 1
Whitemoor 12 6 18
Wymott 3 3
Closed young offender institutions 71 7 78
Aylesbury 13 2 15
Castington 8 8
Deeerbolt 3 1 4
Dover 7 7
Feltham 9 1 10
Glen Parva 6 1 7
Hollesley Bay 3 3
Moorland 7 7
Northallerton 3 3
Onley 7 1 8
Stoke Heath 5 1 6
Short sentenced institutions 3 3
Hollesley Bay 1 1
Werrington 2 2
Juvenile institutions 2 2
Onley 2 2
All female establishments 53 3 56
Local prisons 37 3 40
Holloway 15 15
Low Newton 1 1
New Hall 2 2
Pucklechurch 3 2 5
Risley 16 1 17
Closed prisons 9 9
Bullwood Hall 2 2
Cookham Wood 1 1
Styal 6 6
Closed young offender institutions 7 7
Bullwood Hall 5 5
Styal 2 2

1Provisional figures.

2Including attempting, inciting or assisting.

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