§ Mr. George HowarthTo 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 ForsythResponsibility 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.
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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.