Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will develop a national strategy to help reduce assaults on prison officers.

The Prison Service has a National Safety Strategy Framework in place which sets out the approach to reducing violence by identifying and addressing the drivers of harm and preventing harm to others.

Governors are required to have prison-level safety strategies in place to effectively manage the risks of violence, which are grounded in an understanding of the drivers of harm and the risks in their prisons, using the National Safety Strategy Framework as a guide for their development.