§ Ms RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the disturbance at HMP Full Sutton on the weekend of 17–19 June; what damage occurred; what is the estimated cost of that damage; and what injuries there were to(a) staff and (b) inmates.
§ Mr. Peter LloydResponsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Derek Lewis to Ms Joan Ruddock, dated 28 June 1994:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the disturbance at HMP Full Sutton on the weekend of 17th–19th June; what damage occurred; what is the estimated cost of that damage and what injuries there were to (a) staff and (b) inmates.No disturbance took place at Full Sutton on the weekend of 17th–19th June. The only recorded incidents which took place during that period were two minor fires in prisoners' cells which occurred separately. No injuries were sustained by either staff or inmates and the damage caused to clothes, bedding and a single item of furniture were negligible in value. In both cases these small fires were extinguished by staff before the arrival of the fire brigade.