Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 63903

HMP High Down and HMP/YOI Downview: Crimes of Violence

Tabled: 30 June 2025
Answered: 8 July 2025

Question

Rebecca Paul

ConservativeReigate

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many assaults on staff by prisoners have taken place at (a) HMP Downview and (b) HMP High Down in Banstead in the last 12 months.

Answer

Sir Nicholas Dakin
The latest data on assaults on staff, broken down by prison, covers the year up to December 2024. It is published in table 8e of the Safety in Custody summary tables to December 2024, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/safety-in-custody...

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