Urgent Question on staff safety in prisons: 11 July 2016
11 July 2016 (updated on 11 July 2016)
Secretary of State for Justice, Michael Gove, responded to an Urgent Question asked by Andy Slaughter, MP for Hammersmith, in the House of Commons on the safety of staff in prisons in the House of Commons on Monday 11 July.
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