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Home Office

Answer

Mr. Beith: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for (i) HMP Wolds and (ii) HMP Buckley Hall the number of incidents that have occurred during each of the last three financial years of the respective contracts in respect of (a) assaults on staff, (b) assaults by prisoners on other prisoners, (c) self harm, (d) class A drug finds, (e) other drug finds, (f) items smuggled into the prison, (g) delayed request replies, (h) failure to use agreed reporting procedures, (i) failure to achieve 95 per cent. occupancy of employment places, (j) key/lock compromises, (k) attempted escapes, (l) temporary release failures and (m) recapture and surrender. [83919] Mr. George Howarth: The information requested is given in the table. The information requested about Buckley Hall on items smuggled into prison, failure to use agreed reporting procedures and failure to achieve 95 per cent. occupancy of employment places is not available because there is no contractual obligation for such information to be collected. The figures requested regarding recapture and surrender are not available because prisoners may surrender to another prison. Incidents at Buckley Hall and Wolds prisons 1996-97 to 1998-99 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Category Prison 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 Assaults on staff Buckley Hall 14 20 12 Wolds 16 8 23 Assault prisoner/prisoner Buckley Hall 13 18 11 Wolds 18 10 19 Self harm Buckley Hall 5 7 6 Wolds 23 46 69 Class A Drugs finds Buckley Hall 13 13 13 Wolds 20 18 10 Other drugs finds Buckley Hall 36 38 28 Wolds 115 90 88 Items smuggled into prison Buckley Hall n/a n/a n/a Wolds 28 20 29 Delayed request replies Buckley Hall 106 162 87 Wolds 5 3 1 Failure to use agreed Buckley Hall n/a n/a n/a reporting procedures Wolds 4 10 17 Failure to achieve 95 per Buckley Hall n/a n/a n/a cent. occupancy of employment places Wolds 3 1 1 Key/lock compromises Buckley Hall 0 1 1 Wolds 0 0 0 Attempted escapes Buckley Hall 0 0 0 Wolds 0 0 0 Temporary release failures Buckley Hall 4 4 4 Wolds 2 0 4 Recapture and surrender Buckley Hall n/a n/a n/a Wolds n/a n/a n/a _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

83919; 331 c258-9W;331 c277W

Session

1998-99

Subjects

Crimes of violence Employment Drugs Prisoners Prisoner escapes Standards Security Smuggling Self-harm HMP Wolds HMP Buckley Hall