HC Deb 17 March 1995 vol 256 cc759-60W
Mr. George Howarth

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offences relating to assaults proved in disciplinary proceedings, including attempted assaults, incitement and assisting other prisoners in assault excluding criminal proceedings relating to assaults took place in each local prison and remand centre excluding contracted-out prisons in England and Wales since 1 April 1994; and how many took place in(a) local prisons and remand centres, contracted out, (b) prisons, (c) dispersals, (d) category B training prisons, (e) category C training prisons, (f) adult male open prisons, (g) young offender closed establishments, (h) young offender open establishments and (i) female establishments.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

Responsibility 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. George Howarth, dated 17 March 1995: The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the number of proved offences of assault at disciplinary proceedings since 1 April 1994. The enclosed tables give the number of assaults for each non-contracted out local prison and remand centre and the total number of assaults by type of Prison Service establishment. A copy of these tables has been placed in the House of Commons Library.

Table 1: Assaults proved at adjudication1 April 1994—February 19952: Remand Centres and Local Prisons3
Assaults
Remand centres 844
Brinsford 102
Cardiff 18
Dorchester 1
Exeter 20
Feltham 130
Glen Parva 91
Gloucester 23
Hindley 65
Lancaster Farms 48
Low Newton 42
Moorland 80
Northallerton 37
Norwich 12
Reading 43
Rochester 61
Stoke Heath 24
Swansea 21
Wood Hill 26
Local prisons 1,654
Bedford 26
Belmarsh 94
Birmingham 88
Bristol 28
Brixton 76
Bullingdon 54
Camp Hill
Canterbury 11
Cardiff 37

Table I: Assaults proved at adjudication1 April 1994—February 19952: Remand Centres and Local Prisons3
Assaults
Chelmsford 36
Dorchester 4
Durham 36
Elmley 49
Exeter 13
Gloucester 13
Highdown 65
Holme House 35
Hull 91
Leeds 136
Leicester 42
Lewes 29
Lincoln 39
Liverpool 69
Manchester 64
Norwich 38
Pentonville 86
Preston 56
Shrewsbury 30
Swansea 12
Wandsworth 134
Winchester 36
Wood Hill 73
Wormwood Scrubs 54
1 Includes attempt, incite or assist in an assault
2 Provisional figures.
3 Excludes contracted-out establishments (Blakenhurst, Doncaster, Wolds).

Table 2: Assaults proved at adjudication1 April 1994—February 19952: By type of establishment
All Prison Service Establishments 5,190
Males
Contracted-out local prisons and remand centres3 309
Non-contracted-out local prisons and remand centres4 2,498
Dispersal prisons 312
Category B training prisons 222
Category C training prisons 503
Open Prisons 18
Closed Young Offender Institutions 621
Open Young Offender Institutions 34
Juvenile Young Offender Institutions 264
Females
Female Establishments 409
1 Includes attempt, incite or assist in an assault
2 Provisional figures.
3 Contracted-out establishments: Blakenhurst, Doncaster, Wolds.
4 Excludes Blackenhurst, Doncaster, Wolds.

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