Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions in the last year private prisons have required the support of HM Prison Service to deal with concerted indiscipline.

HM Prison Service, and other contracted establishment resources, have been deployed to contracted prisons, as part of our established mutual aid arrangements, to assist with the resolution of concerted indiscipline on three occasions within the last twelve months. The details are as follows;

• 17 July 2016 Doncaster
• 01 September 2016 Lowdham Grange
• 16 December 2016 Birmingham

On each occasion the National Tactical Response Group were also deployed to provide specialist incident management support including advanced tactical options, advice, planning and development of intervention options.