Prisons: Staff
(asked on 14th January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison staff have been deployed as part of the 10 Prisons Programme from other areas of the prison estate; and if he will list those numbers of staff by prison they have been deployed from.
When we need temporary deployment of experienced or specialist staff, we have in place a well-established Detached Duty scheme which ensures the prisons sending staff have the necessary resources to do so safely.
As an extension of this scheme, we are planning to temporarily transfer 31 staff members from the wider prison estate to support the 10 Prisons Project. The supporting prisons were identified as those best placed to assist based on a risk-assessment of resource levels.
We have also provided additional funding for several additional staff in the 10 Prisons to lead their Drugs Strategies, improve searching and work with extra drug-detection dogs that we’ve provided.
A list of prisons providing supporting staff to the 10 Prisons Project is provided below:
Prison | No. supplied |
Brinsford | 1 |
Buckley Hall | 1 |
Bullingdon | 1 |
Cardiff | 2 |
Dartmoor | 1 |
Eastwood Park | 1 |
Erlestoke | 1 |
Frankland | 1 |
Full Sutton | 1 |
Garth | 1 |
Gartree | 1 |
Grendon & Springhill | 1 |
Hatfield | 1 |
Highpoint | 1 |
Holme House | 1 |
Lancaster Farms | 1 |
Leicester | 1 |
Lincoln | 1 |
Littlehey | 1 |
Maidstone | 1 |
Manchester | 1 |
Preston | 1 |
Risley | 1 |
Stafford | 1 |
Stocken | 1 |
Stoke Heath | 1 |
Wakefield | 1 |
Whatton | 1 |
Whitemoor | 1 |
Wymott | 1 |