Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many assaults on staff were recorded at HMP Brixton in each year since 2010.

The recorded number of assaults on staff in HMP Brixton in each of the calendar years 2010 to 2014 are as follows:

NOMS is committed to running safe establishments and is working hard to reduce levels of violence in prisons. Violence of any kind in prison is wholly unacceptable and we treat any assault extremely seriously. We have introduced a new protocol between NOMS, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Police that will ensure that when there are serious assaults on prison staff, the perpetrators will be prosecuted unless there is a good reason not to do so.