To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice pursuant to the answer of 5 December 2006, Official Report, columns 292-3W, on prisons, how many (a) suicides, (b) attempted suicides, (c) self-harm incidents and (d) prisoner-on-prisoner assaults there were in HM Prisons in 2006.
The number requested at (a) in relation to self-inflicted deaths in prison in 2006 is 67.
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The recorded number requested at (c) in relation to self-harm incidents in prison in 2006 is 23,389 incidents, the vast majority of which did not constitute life threatening incidents. The recorded number requested at (d) in relation to prisoner on prisoner assault in 2006 is 11,427. These figures should not be taken as absolute.
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