Question follow-through · 20821

Prisons: Crimes of Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many assaults involving boiling water have been recorded within prisons in the last 12 months.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body: Ministry of Justice
Tabled: 17 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 19 Dec 2024
Answer: 23 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

17 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many assaults involving boiling water have been recorded within prisons in the last 12 months.
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Dec 2024
Answer published
The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

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