Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many loss of tool incidents have occurred in each prison establishment since May 2010.

Tool or implement losses are infrequent occurrences, however each one is taken seriously and subject to local investigation. The number of losses has remained stable over the last 10 years.

The following table provides a breakdown of the number of tool or implement losses reported between May 2010 and January 2016.

Note: These figures have been drawn from the NOMS Incident Reporting System. Care is taken when processing and analysing the returns but the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. Although the figures are shown to the last case the figures may not be accurate to that level.