Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a breakdown by weapons type of weapons incidents in prisons since 2015.

The number of incidents of assaults involving weapons, broken down by weapon type, can be found in table 3.10 of the following link (taken from the published ‘Safety in Custody statistics quarterly update to December 2023’): https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6626542a1cbbb3400ba7e524/safety-in-custody-assaults-dec-23.xlsx.