Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) recorded violent incidents there were and (b) prison officers worked at (i) Wakefield and (ii) New Hall prison in each of the last five years and this year to date.

The National Offender Management Service is committed to running safe establishments.

Violence of any kind in prison is not tolerated and all assaults are treated extremely seriously.

Assault incidents are published in the quarterly Safety in Custody statistics (to December 2014) last published in April 2015, at the following link https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/424982/safety-in-custody-assaults-dec-14.xls, see table 3.14 which provides the assault figures by prison.

Prisoner Officer statistics are published in the NOMS Workforce Bulletin, last published in May 2015, at the following link https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-offender-management-service-workforce-statistics, see table 10 which provides the prison officer figures by prison.