§ Mr. HoyleTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many hostage incidents in prisons in each of the last five years have involved women staff.
§ 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 Mr. Doug Hoyle, dated 4 May 1994:
The Home Secretary has sked me to reply to your recent Question about the number of hostage incidents in prisons in each of the last five years involving women staff.There was one such incident in 1989 and two in 1991.