Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prison officers at bands three to five had (a) less than one, (b) less than three and (c) three or more years’ experience at each high-security institution on 1 May (i) 2010, (ii) 2015 and (iii) 2024.
Answered by Edward Argar
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of rape trials in England and Wales that have been postponed in each year since 2010.
Answered by Laura Farris
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time was for rape cases to be completed in court in each year since 2010.
Answered by Laura Farris
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of rape trials were postponed (a) once, (b) twice and (c) three times in each year since 2010.
Answered by Laura Farris
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison guards left service in the high security estate in each year since 2010.
Answered by Edward Argar
The quarterly HMPPS workforce statistics publication covers staffing information, including leavers, and the latest publication covers data up to 31 March 2024.
Data relating to the number of prison officers who left service in the high security estate, broken down by calendar year, since 2010, has been provided in table 1 below.
In 2021 a new standardised exit interview process was introduced across HMPPS (both prisons and probation) to allow staff the opportunity to convey their reasons for leaving. This, coupled with dedicated retention research has enabled leaver trend data to be analysed. Feedback from the exit interviews helps to shape and determine interventions to better understand and respond to staff attrition. Since April 2022, we have invested in several new initiatives to improve the experience of our new joiners and increase retention of our employees.
These include:
Retention is improving across HMPPS, with prison officer resignation rate dropping to 8.4% as of March 2024, an improvement of 1.4 percentage points on the previous year.
Table 1: Number of prison officers1 across public sector prisons2 who left HMPPS3 from the high security estate4, broken down by calendar year, from 01 January 2010 - 31 December 2023(p)
(headcount)
Calendar year | Number of prison officers who left HMPPS from the high security estate |
2010 | 191 |
2011 | 229 |
2012 | 234 |
2013 | 519 |
2014 | 284 |
2015 | 264 |
2016 | 265 |
2017 | 301 |
2018 | 422 |
2019 | 510 |
2020 | 398 |
2021 | 516 |
2022 | 711 |
2023 | 556 |
Notes to table 1:
1. "Prison officers" refers to staff in the following grades: Band 3-4 / Prison Officer (incl specialists), Band 4 / Supervising Officer and Band 5 / Custodial Managers working in HM Prison Service or the Youth Custody Service (YCS), in England and Wales. Therefore, it excludes staff working in HQ or the Probation Service
2. Only information for public sector prisons in England and Wales. Information for private prisons is not included in this table
3. As with all HR databases, extracts are taken at a fixed point in time, to ensure consistency of reporting. However, the database itself is dynamic and where updates to the database are made late, subsequent to the taking of the extract, these updates will not be reflected in figures produced by the extract. For this reason, HR data are unlikely to be precisely accurate
4. The "high security estate" refers to the 'Long term & High Security' group in public sector prisons in England and Wales. The "high security estate" categorisation is reflective as at 31 March 2024.
(p) Provisional data. There may be minor changes to figures in future due to additional data being recorded on the reporting system.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were transferred from Category A prisons in each year since 2015, by the category of their destination prisons.
Answered by Edward Argar
The number of prisoners transferred each year is published in table 3_A_28 available at Offender management statistics quarterly: October to December 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
The data for which Category prisons that prisoners have been transferred to can be found in the attached table. Prisoners cannot be transferred into a prison with a lower security category than their individual classification. Moves from higher to lower security classification prisons relate to prisoners who are progressing through the prison system as their assessed risk decreases.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were transferred to Category C prisons in each year since 2015, by the category of the original prison.
Answered by Edward Argar
The number of prisoners transferred each year is published in table 3_A_28 available at Offender management statistics quarterly: October to December 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
The data for which Category prisons that prisoners have been transferred to can be found in the attached table. Prisoners cannot be transferred into a prison with a lower security category than their individual classification. Moves from higher to lower security classification prisons relate to prisoners who are progressing through the prison system as their assessed risk decreases.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were transferred to Category D prisons in each year since 2015, by category of the original prison.
Answered by Edward Argar
The number of prisoners transferred each year is published in table 3_A_28 available at Offender management statistics quarterly: October to December 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
The data for which Category prisons that prisoners have been transferred to can be found in the attached table. Prisoners cannot be transferred into a prison with a lower security category than their individual classification. Moves from higher to lower security classification prisons relate to prisoners who are progressing through the prison system as their assessed risk decreases.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were transferred in each year since 2015.
Answered by Edward Argar
The number of prisoners transferred each year is published in table 3_A_28 available at Offender management statistics quarterly: October to December 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
The data for which Category prisons that prisoners have been transferred to can be found in the attached table. Prisoners cannot be transferred into a prison with a lower security category than their individual classification. Moves from higher to lower security classification prisons relate to prisoners who are progressing through the prison system as their assessed risk decreases.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed forces personnel are classified as (a) wounded, (b) injured and (c) sick by (i) reason and (ii) service branch.
Answered by Andrew Murrison
The numbers of Personnel on Recovery Duty (PRD) by principal cause of medical downgrading and service as at 1 April 2024 is presented in the table below:
| Royal Navy1 | Army | RAF |
Injured2 | 292 | 94 | 11 |
Sick | 1,664 | 731 | 209 |
Mental, Behavioural and Neurodevelopmental disorders (F01-F99) | 562 | 423 | 125 |
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue. (M00–M99) | 617 | 121 | 31 |
Other3 | 485 | 187 | 53 |
Not Known | 334 | 132 | 5 |
Sources: Wounded, Injured and Sick Management Information System (WISMIS), Joint Personnel Administration (JPA) and Defence Medical Information Capability Programme (DMICP).
1 Royal Navy includes the services Royal Navy and Royal Marines
2 Injured includes Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00–T98)
3. Other includes all other ICD-10 cause code categories
4. Some personnel have no cause information recorded at the point of entering recovery
The UK armed forces are not currently deployed on any combat operations therefore all injuries are non-battle injuries.
The principal cause of downgrading as recorded on an individual’s medical record may not be the reason for entering recovery as an individual can have more than one cause associated with their downgrading.
For some personnel no cause of downgrading information was held at the point they entered recovery. They may have had no cause information recorded, their medical board may have occurred after they entered recovery, or they may still be awaiting a medical board. The cause information is taken from their downgrading and not GP recorded information due to GPs generally recording signs and symptoms. The three single Services differ in their criteria for who receives support from recovery. Due to the differences between the three Services, comparisons between them are not valid and as such the three services have been presented separately.