Jenny Chapman – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jenny Chapman on 2015-12-15.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many assaults on female prison staff took place in each of the last 10 years.
Andrew Selous
We do not tolerate violence of any kind in prison and any assault is treated extremely seriously. Any prisoner who commits an act of violence can expect to have action taken against them.
Quarterly statistics on the numbers of assaults on prison staff are published in the Safety in Custody statistics bulletin, located at the following link:
Information on the gender of those staff who have been assaulted is not held centrally.
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