Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times the National Tactical Response Group was called out in 2014; and to which prisons that group was called out in each month of that year.
Answered on
16 March 2015
The National Offender Management Service’s National Tactical Response Group (NTRG) is a specialist resource to assist both public and private sector establishments in safely managing and resolving serious incidents in prisons.
NTRG was called out on two hundred and twenty three occasions in 2014.
While NTRG staff have the specialist skills required to deal with such incidents they are also frequently called to attend as a precautionary measure with the vast majority of such incidents being dealt with very quickly with minimal disruption to the prison.
The following table sets out the number of occasions the NTRG were called out to public and private sector establishments from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014 (not including aborted call-outs).
Date | Establishment | Occasions |
January 2014 | Aylesbury | 1 |
Glen Parva | 2 | |
Hewell | 1 | |
High Down | 1 | |
Highdown | 1 | |
Holme House | 1 | |
Lancaster Farms | 2 | |
Leeds | 2 | |
Date |
Establishment |
Occasions |
January 2014 | Nottingham | 1 |
Oakwood | 1 | |
Ranby | 1 | |
Risley | 1 | |
Wandsworth | 1 | |
Wealstun | 1 | |
Winchester | 2 | |
Woodhill | 1 | |
January 2014 Total |
| 21 |
February 2014 | Bullingdon | 1 |
Glen Parva | 1 | |
Hewell | 1 | |
Highdown | 1 | |
Ranby | 1 | |
Wayland | 1 | |
Whitemoor | 1 | |
February 2014 Total | 7 | |
March 2014 | Cardiff | 3 |
Doncaster | 1 | |
Full Sutton | 1 | |
Hewell | 1 | |
Hindley | 1 | |
Lindholme | 2 | |
Lowdham Grange | 1 | |
Moorland | 1 | |
Northumberland | 1 | |
Nottingham | 1 | |
Ranby | 4 | |
Stoke Heath | 1 | |
March 2014 Total |
| 18 |
Date |
Establishment |
Occasions |
April 2014 | Coldingley | 1 |
Feltham | 1 | |
Forest Bank | 1 | |
Hewell | 2 | |
Hindley | 1 | |
Holme House | 1 | |
Liverpool | 1 | |
Moorland | 3 | |
Nottingham | 3 | |
Onley | 2 | |
Parc | 1 | |
Risley | 3 | |
Rye Hill | 1 | |
Wetherby | 1 | |
April 2014 Total |
| 22 |
May 2014 | Altcourse | 1 |
Bristol | 1 | |
Buckley Hall | 1 | |
Cardiff | 1 | |
Guys Marsh | 1 | |
Haverigg | 1 | |
Hewell | 1 | |
High Down | 1 | |
Hindley | 1 | |
Nottingham | 2 | |
Peterborough | 1 | |
Portland | 1 | |
Ranby | 1 | |
Rochester | 1 | |
Wandsworth | 1 | |
Wetherby | 2 | |
May 2014 Total |
| 18 |
Date |
Establishment | Occasions |
June 2014 | Bullingdon | 1 |
Channings Wood | 1 | |
Gartree | 1 | |
Glen Parva | 1 | |
Guys Marsh | 2 | |
Haverigg | 1 | |
Hewell | 1 | |
Leicester | 1 | |
Lincoln | 1 | |
Liverpool | 1 | |
Lowdham Grange | 2 | |
Nottingham | 1 | |
Oakwood | 1 | |
Stafford | 1 | |
Wayland | 1 | |
June 2014 Total |
| 17 |
July 2014 | Altcourse | 1 |
Birmingham | 1 | |
Chelmsford | 1 | |
Deerbolt | 2 | |
Glen Parva | 1 | |
Haverigg | 2 | |
Hindley | 2 | |
Lindholme | 3 | |
Lowdham Grange | 1 | |
Nottingham | 1 | |
Parc | 3 | |
Pentonville | 1 | |
Peterborough | 1 | |
Preston | 1 | |
Ranby | 2 | |
Rochester | 1 | |
Rye Hill | 1 | |
Swaleside | 1 | |
Swinfen Hall | 2 | |
Werrington | 1 | |
Winchester | 3 | |
July 2014 Total |
| 32 |
Date |
Establishment | Occasions | |
August 2014 | Alyesbury | 1 | |
Bullingdon | 1 | ||
Channings Wood | 1 | ||
Erlestoke | 1 | ||
Harmondsworth | 1 | ||
Hewell | 1 | ||
Leicester | 2 | ||
Moorland | 2 | ||
Morton Hall | 1 | ||
Norwich | 1 | ||
Nottingham | 3 | ||
Pentonville | 1 | ||
Wayland | 1 | ||
Wolds | 1 | ||
Wormwood Scrubs | 1 | ||
August 2014 Total |
| 19 | |
September 2014 | Altcourse | 2 | |
Belmarsh | 1 | ||
Cardiff | 1 | ||
Deerbolt | 2 | ||
Feltham | 1 | ||
Haverigg | 1 | ||
High Down | 1 | ||
Highdown | 1 | ||
Hindley | 1 | ||
Lewes | 1 | ||
Liverpool | 2 | ||
Morton Hall | 1 | ||
Nottingham | 3 | ||
Oakwood | 1 | ||
Pentonville | 2 | ||
Peterborough | 1 | ||
Ranby | 1 | ||
Styal | 1 | ||
Swaleside | 1 | ||
Swinfen Hall | 1 | ||
Wayland | 1 | ||
Winchester | 1 | ||
September 2014 Total | 28 | ||
Date |
Establishment |
Occasions |
October 2014 | Altcourse | 1 |
Belmarsh | 1 | |
Cardiff | 2 | |
Durham | 1 | |
Humber | 1 | |
Lewes | 1 | |
Liverpool | 1 | |
Manchester | 1 | |
Northumberland | 1 | |
Parc | 1 | |
Portland | 1 | |
Swaleside | 1 | |
Wayland | 1 | |
Wormwood Scrubs | 1 | |
October 2014 Total |
| 15 |
November 2014 | Brinsford | 1 |
Chelmsford | 1 | |
Durham | 1 | |
Elmley | 1 | |
Haverigg | 1 | |
Humber | 3 | |
Lindholme | 2 | |
Northumberland | 1 | |
Portland | 1 | |
Swansea | 1 | |
November 2014 Total | 13 | |
December 2014 | Highpoint | 1 |
Hull | 2 | |
Humber | 1 | |
Isis | 1 | |
Lancaster Farms | 1 | |
Lindhome | 1 | |
Liverpool | 1 | |
Pentonville | 1 | |
Ranby | 1 | |
Rochester | 1 | |
Wandsworth | 1 | |
Whitemoor | 1 | |
December 2014 Total | 13 | |
Grand Total |
| 223 |