Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many assaults took place in each prison in the 12 months to September 2018.

Figures showing the number of assault incidents at each prison in England and Wales between October 2017 and September 2018 are in the attached table.

We have recruited over 4,700 more prison officers since October 2016, and we now have the greatest number in post since early 2012. The Challenge, Support and Intervention Plan case management process for prisoners at risk of violence has been mandated for all prisons and will be fully in place by the end of April 2019. We are improving perimeter security and using other equipment such as body scanners to address the supply of drugs. We are confident that these initiatives, together with the many other measures that we are taking to protect our staff, will reduce the level of violence in prisons.