Q. Prison Officers

Prison Officers

(asked on 10th November 2017) - View Source

Questioner

Richard Burgon
(Labour - Leeds East)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) number and (b) benchmark target of prison officers has been for the 10 prisons deemed to be of serious concern in the Prison Annual Performance Ratings 2016-17 in each year since 2010.

Answered by

Sam Gyimah

This question was answered on 20th November 2017

The information requested is shown in the tables below. HMP Birmingham was not benchmarked.

Table 1a: The number of Band 3-5 prison officers (FTE) in post, as at 31 March 2010 to 31 March 2017
Name	31/03/2010	31/03/2011	31/03/2012	31/03/2013	31/03/2014	31/03/2015	31/03/2016	31/03/2017
Bedford	136	141	140	146	130	126	137	115
Bristol	192	194	186	204	159	163	143	165
Brixton	211	204	192	156	142	141	142	131
Guys Marsh	125	126	124	134	121	113	118	118
Hindley	246	255	247	232	171	206	140	142
Liverpool	376	338	300	290	262	251	245	280
Pentonville	378	362	347	341	276	268	253	275
Wandsworth	424	414	385	347	306	275	271	270
Wormwood Scrubs	305	309	315	303	256	239	248	243
Table 1b: Benchmark target of band 3-5 prison officers (FTE), as at 30 April 2010 to 30 April 2017
Name	30/04/2010	30/04/2011	30/04/2012	30/04/2013	30/04/2014	30/04/2015	30/04/2016	30/04/2017
Bedford	…	…	…	136	136	141	141	144
Bristol	…	…	…	155	155	155	155	154
Brixton	…	…	…	142	142	152	158	162
Guys Marsh	…	…	…	124	124	124	125	123
Hindley	…	…	…	…	0	138	141	153
Liverpool	…	…	…	232	232	254	256	275
Pentonville	…	…	…	247	247	264	274	273
Wandsworth	…	…	…	289	289	293	296	296
Wormwood Scrubs	…	…	…	240	240	266	264	256
*Notes:*
1. Benchmark targets include small temporary additions allocated to the establishment at the relevant date.
2. Benchmark targets have been rounded to the nearest whole number.
Benchmark implementation took place from 2013 onwards, starting with Local and Cat C prisons and other category prisons from 2015.
… denotes not available.

Prison Officers

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