§ Mr. HoyleTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list by category all reported acts of(a) concerted indiscipline, (b) fires, (c) escapes and attempted escapes from prison, (d) escapes and attempted escapes from escort, (e) deaths, (f) hostage situations, (g) wrongful releases and (h) miscellaneous or any other incidents at (i) Wolds, (ii) Blakenhurst and (iii) Buckley Hall prisons from 1 September 1994 to 30 June 1995. [36196]
§ Miss WiddecombeResponsibility for this matter has been delegated to the temporary Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
443WLetter from Richard Tilt to Mr. Doug Hoyle, dated 23 October 1995:
The Home Secretary has asked me, in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your recent Question asking for a list by category of all reported acts of (a) concerted indiscipline, (b) fires, (c) escapes and attempted escapes from prison, (d) escapes and attempted escapes from escort, (e) deaths, (f) hostage situations, (g) wrongful releases and (h) miscellaneous or any other incidents at (i) Wolds, (ii) Blakenhurst and (iii) Buckley Hall prisons from 1st September 1994 to 30th June 1995. Both the Wolds and Blakenhurst prisons were operational on 1 September 1994. Buckley Hall prison did not receive its first prisoner until 14 December 1994.The information is listed in the attached table:
Incident Type Wolds Blakenhurst Buckley Hall Concerted indiscipline 2 2 2 Fires 2 5 1 Prison escapes 0 0 0 Prison attempted escapes 0 0 0 Escort escapes 0 0 0 Escort attempted escapes 0 0 1 Deaths 1 1 0 Hostage situations 0 0 0 Wrongful release 0 1 0 Miscellaneous 5 15 0 Assaults on staff 12 19 0 Assaults on inmates 16 65 2 Assaults on others 1 0 0 Key lock compromise 0 1 1 Food refusals 10 0 0 Temporary release failures 0 1 7 Self harm 39 29 1 Tool implement loss find 0 3 1 Drug finds 77 122 7 Absconds 0 1 0 Recaptures/surrenders 0 2 5 Total 165 267 28