HC Deb 06 March 2000 vol 345 c544W
Ms Kelly

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many assaults on prison staff were carried out in the latest year for which figures are available by prisoners in(a) PFI prisons and (b) non-PFI prisons; and if he will make a statement. [112497]

Mr. Boateng

Provisional information on the number of proven assaults adjudicated upon in prisons in England and Wales during 1999 is given in the table.