Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers have taken severance and redundancy packages in each month since May 2015.

Information on the number of Band 3 Officers who received severance payments between May and September 2015 is contained in the table below.

Prison Officers Taking Severance Payments - May to September 2015

¹ Information on severance payments received in September 2015 is incomplete.

Severance payments include payments for voluntary exit, redundancy, and payments as compensation for ill health retirements.

No Band 3 Prison Officers received redundancy payments during this period.

All figures are rounded to the nearest 10, with numbers ending in 5 rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias. As with all HR databases, extracts are taken at a fixed point in time, to ensure consistency of reporting. However the database itself is dynamic, and where updates to the database are made late, subsequent to the taking of the extract, these updates will not be reflected in figures produced by the extract. For this reason, HR data are unlikely to be precisely accurate, and to present unrounded figures would be to overstate the accuracy of the figures. Rounding to 10 accurately depicts the level of certainty that is held with these figures.

~ denotes suppressed values of 5 or fewer or calculations based on a population of 5 or fewer. Low numbers are suppressed, in conjunction with the rounding policy to prevent disclosure in accordance with the Data Protection Act, 1998.