Accident and Emergency Departments: Crimes of Violence

David Simpson
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many accident and emergency staff were hospitalised as a result of being assaulted while on duty in each of the last three years, broken down by region.

Ann Keen
This information is not available centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

For information on reported physical assaults I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr. Lansley) on 14 May 2008, Official Report, column 1654W.