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Home Office

Answer

Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) assaults and (b) instances of criminal damage there were in HM Young Offenders Institution Wetherby in each of the past five years. [140587] Paul Goggins: The numbers of assaults in the establishment for each of the last five years, with numbers of serious assaults1 shown in brackets, are: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number of assaults Number of serious assaults April 1999 to March 2000 145 (4) April 2000 to March 2001 135 (4) April 2001 to March 2002 117 (10) April 2002 to March 2003 129 (5) April 2003 to October 2003 79 (2) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 `Serious assault' is defined as an assault on any person, including fights (if resulting in detention in outside hospital as an in-patient, medical treatment for concussion or internal injury, fractures, scalds and burns, stabbing, crushing, extensive or multiple bruising, black eye, broken nose, lost or broken tooth, cuts requiring suturing, bites, temporary or permanent blindness or sexual assaults). Information about incidents of criminal damage is not recorded centrally for the Prison Service estate as a whole. However, since April 2003 there has been central recording by Prison Service juvenile group of incidents of significant damage1 to the fabric of cells within the Prison Service juvenile estate. From April to October 2003 there were 64 such incidents at Wetherby. 1 `Significant damage' is defined as any damage incurring a cost.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

140587; 415 c624W;415 c623-4W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Discipline Crimes of violence Damage Young offenders Young offender institutions HMYOI Wetherby

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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