Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-04-30.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) assaults and (b) serious assaults on staff per 1,000 prisoners there were in each prison in each of the last four years.
Jeremy Wright
The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) does not tolerate violence of any kind in prisons and any instance is taken very seriously.
NOMS is committed to exploring options to continue to improve how violence is tackled in prisons to keep both staff and prisoners safe. It is currently reviewing the policy and practice of the management of violence.
Over the last 5 years the rate of assaults has fallen by 13%.
Risk of assault is distributed unevenly around the prison estate. Gender, age and other factors such as the size and composition of the prison population, can affect the number assault incidents that occur in a particular establishment. Therefore, careful interpretation is needed of the incident and rates tables at a prison level.
The number of (a) assaults on staff per 1,000 prisoners in each prison has been placed in the library.
Due to the low number of serious assaults on prison staff at prison level, the information requested on rates (b) cannot be provided in order to protect the confidentiality of those staff involved.
