Swansea Prison

(asked on 12th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions in the last 12 months have prison staff from prisons in England had to cover staff shortages at HMP Swansea.


Answered by
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Rory Stewart
This question was answered on 22nd January 2018

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.

HMP Swansea, HMP Cardiff, HMP Parc and HMP Usk/Prescoed have not received any staff from prisons in England on detached duty in the last 12 months. HMP Berwyn has not received any staff from prisons in England on detached duty since opening.

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