Labour’s Grahame Morris warned of an “explosion in violence in our prisons directed against prison officers" at Justice Questions in the Commons.

Proudly sporting a POA badge, the Easington MP asked if ministers agreed with the prison officers’ union that “the government is breaching its responsibilities under health and safety legislation by wilfully exposing hard-pressed prison staff to assaults, currently running at 10,000 a year – or over 28 a day.”