Prisons: Pepper Spray
(asked on 16th May 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to centrally collect data on the ethnicity of prison officers deploying PAVA incapacitant spray on prisoners.
This question was answered on 24th May 2023
There are no plans to centrally collect data on the ethnicity of prison officers deploying PAVA.
PAVA is only used as a last resort by specially trained prison officers. Prisons monitor its use carefully, including for any disparities in the way it is deployed.