Prison Officers: Sick Leave
(asked on 8th December 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will list the ten prisons which had the highest proportion of officers off sick over the past 12 months; and if he will make an estimate of the average proportion of total prison officers off sick as a percentage of the total workforce at each of those prisons.
The quarterly HM Prison and Probation Service workforce statistics publication covers staffing information, including the working days lost due to sickness absence.
The ten prisons which had the highest proportion of band 3-5 officers who had at least one period of sickness absence in the 12 months to 30 September 2022 is shown in table 1 below.
Table 1: Top 10 prisons with highest proportion of band 3-5 officers1 with at least one period of sickness absence2, in the 12 months to 30 September 2022(p)
Prison | Band 3-5 officers off sick at least once in period | Total band 3-5 officers employed in period | Proportion of band 3-5 officers sick as a percentage of all band 3-5 officers in post | All staff workforce employed in period | Proportion of band 3-5 officers sick as a percentage of all staff workforce in post |
Werrington | 148 | 161 | 91.9% | 274 | 54.0% |
Send | 124 | 139 | 89.2% | 238 | 52.1% |
Hindley | 215 | 244 | 88.1% | 380 | 56.6% |
Liverpool | 283 | 322 | 87.9% | 530 | 53.4% |
Grendon | 134 | 154 | 87.0% | 314 | 42.7% |
Full Sutton | 430 | 496 | 86.7% | 711 | 60.5% |
Isle of Wight | 302 | 349 | 86.5% | 627 | 48.2% |
Eastwood Park | 172 | 199 | 86.4% | 329 | 52.3% |
Littlehey | 243 | 282 | 86.2% | 502 | 48.4% |
Downview | 141 | 165 | 85.5% | 280 | 50.4% |
1. Includes Band 3-4 / Prison Officer (incl specialists), Band 4 / Supervising Officer and Band 5 / Custodial Managers.
2. Individuals are only counted once, even if they have more than one episode of sickness absence recorded.
(p) Figures relating to current financial year are provisional.