Parc Prison: Security

(asked on 11th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions HMP Parc was placed on lockdown due to staff covering staff shortages at prisons in England in the last 12 months.


Answered by
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Rory Stewart
This question was answered on 19th January 2018

The information requested is not collected.

Detached duty is a regular and normal part of prison resourcing. It allows staff to be allocated from prisons with the capacity to provide them, to those where additional staffing is required to enable the delivery of a safe, decent, secure and predictable regime.

Staffing shortages is not the sole driver of detached duty or indeed the trigger for it to be used. Many establishments have what could be described as staffing shortages or vacancies, but through the use of ‘Regime Management Planning’ these shortages are managed to ensure an acceptable level of regime delivery.

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