Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place in the Library a copy of the most recent National Offender Management Service report on homicides in prisons.
In December 2013 the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman published a Lessons Learned Bulletin on Prison Homicides, a copy of which I have placed in the Library.
We are committed to reducing the number of deaths in prisons and strenuous efforts are made to learn from each one. All apparent homicides in prison are subject to a police investigation and an independent investigation by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, and a Coroners inquest if there remains a need for this following the conclusion of any criminal proceedings. The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) carefully considers the findings and recommendations from these investigations and disseminates the learning from them.