questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the number of assaults against prison staff in private prisons in (a) 2020, (b) 2021, (c) 2022 and (d) 2023.
answerText: Data on the number of assaults against prison staff, including in private prisons, are published as part of our Safety in Custody statistics, available at the following link (found in table 8e in the summary tables):Safety in custody: quarterly update to ...
heading: Prisons: Crimes against the Person