Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Justice – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 17 March 2015.
Chris Grayling
The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
11:30,
17 March 2015
We will continue to review the impact of benchmarking. There is no evidence that connects changes within the prison sector to the number of suicides in prisons, which has been much too high in recent months. Suicides have happened in prisons where there have been no staffing changes, as well as ones where there have been staffing changes, and in prisons where there have been good inspection reports and poor inspection reports. This is an issue in our prisons and a broader issue in society as a whole, and we must all work hard to deal with it.