HC Deb 17 February 1993 vol 219 cc235-6W
Ms. Ruddock

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the average weekly cost per inmate of providing gas, electricity and water at(a) local and (b) remand prisons.

generally includes all offences of wounding which do not endanger life. The number of offences in this classification for the last five years were as follows:

Number
1987 129,193
1988 144,781
1989 162,843
1990 169,764
1991 174,245

In addition, there were 686 notifiable offences of assault in 1987 and 503 in 1988. Following the Criminal Justice Act 1988, these assaults became summary offences and as such they are no longer collected centrally for the notifiable offence series.

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