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Mr. Dubs
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many attacks there have been by one prisoner on another in any penal establishment in each of the last five years.
Mr. Mellor
Information is not available in the form requested. The following table relates to adjudications in prison department establishments in each of the years 1981 to 1985 where an inmate was charged with an offence of gross personal violence to another inmate, or of assault upon another inmate, or with an attempt to commit such an offence.
1981
| 1982
| 1983
| 1984
| 1985
| |
| Charge dismissed | — | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| Sub-total | 99 | 51 | 37 | 24 | 51 |
| Total | 2,447 | 2,190 | 2,156 | 1,935 | 2,098 |
Corresponding figures for 1986 are not at present available.