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Young Offender Institutions: Emergencies

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what mechanisms are in place in (a) young offender institutions and (b) prisons in England and Wales to ensure that staff invoke appropriate response procedures in the event of (i) fire, (ii) death and (ii) other emergencies; and what steps his Department has taken to ensure that prison staff are trained in such procedures. (218874)

HM Prison Service provides instructions to ensure that governing governors and directors of both prisons and young offender institutions have contingency plans in place in the event of fire, death and other emergencies.

Public and private sector prison staff receive the appropriate training to ensure they have required skills and knowledge to deal with incidents of fire, death and other emergencies in prisons. It is the responsibility of individual prisons to assess the training needs of their staff to ensure these incidents are managed effectively.