Accredited official statistics

Safety in custody quarterly update to March 2016

Safety in custody statistics cover deaths, self-harm and assaults in prison custody in England and Wales.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Published: 28 July 2016

Documents

Safety in custody quarterly bulletin: March 2016

PDF, 677 KB, 17 pages

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Safety in custody summary tables to March 2016

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 208 KB

Deaths in prison custody 1978 to 2015

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 968 KB

Self-harm in prison custody 2004 to 2015

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 267 KB

Assaults in prison custody 2000 to 2015

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 462 KB

Guide to safety in custody statistics

PDF, 459 KB, 28 pages

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Details

Safety in custody statistics cover deaths, self-harm and assaults in prison custody in England and Wales. This publication updates statistics on deaths to the end of June 2016 and assaults and self-harm up to March 2016. The bulletin is released by the Ministry of Justice and produced in accordance with arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

Pre-release list

Safety in Custody statistics is produced and handled by the Ministry of Justice’s (MOJ) analytical professionals and production staff. Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons:

Ministry of Justice

Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State; Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Minister for Prisons and Rehabilitation; Permanent Secretary; Director of Analytical Services; and Head of Digital Communications, Ministerial Speech Writer, relevant special advisors (x2), press officers (x7), and private secretaries (x7).

National Offender Management Service (NOMS)

Director General, NOMS; NOMS Executive Management Committee (x11); Deputy Director, Head of Performance and Analysis Group (PAG); Deputy Director, Equalities, Rights and Decency Group; Safer Custody Unit (x2); Suicide and Self-Harm Project Manager; Violence Reduction Project Manager.

Other government departments

Private secretary to the Prime Minister

Policy adviser at Economic and Domestic Affairs Secretariat

Published 28 July 2016