Prison Service: Staff
(asked on 1st February 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of prison staff at each band were BAME in (i) 2010 and (ii) the most recent year for which figures are available.
Information on the number and proportion of Black, Asian and minority Ethnic prison staff as at (i) 31 December 2010 and (ii) 30 September 2015 (latest available data) is shown in the table below.
Table: Number and proportion of BAME staff per band:
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| Headcount of BAME Staff | BAME prison staff as a percentage of staff declaring their ethnicity | |||
Grade Type | NOMS Band | 31 December 2010 | 30 September 2015 | 31 December 2010 | 30 September 2015 | |
Operational | Band 2 | 500 | 350 | 7.2 | 8.8 | |
| Band 3 | 1030 | 760 | 5.5 | 5.8 | |
| Band 4 | 160 | 120 | 4.6 | 5 | |
| Band 5 | 50 | 60 | 6 | 4.8 | |
| Band 6 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | |
| Band 7 | 30 | 20 | 5.7 | 6.1 | |
| Band 8 | 20 | 20 | 6.2 | 5.2 | |
| Band 9 | 10 | 10 | 9.8 | 12.1 | |
| Band 10 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | |
| Band 11 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | |
| Other | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | |
| Total | 1810 | 1340 | 5.8 | 6.2 | |
Non Operational | Band 2 | 60 | 40 | 6.4 | 9.8 | |
| Band 3 | 350 | 240 | 6.1 | 7 | |
| Band 4 | 170 | 80 | 6.7 | 5.1 | |
| Band 5 | 110 | 100 | 32.8 | 15.5 | |
| Band 6 | 80 | 20 | 8.7 | 5.2 | |
| Band 7 | 20 | 30 | 6.1 | 17.9 | |
| Band 8 | 30 | 10 | 7.7 | 8.1 | |
| Band 9 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | |
| Band 10 | 10 | ~ | 41.2 | ~ | |
| Band 11 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | |
| Other | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | |
| Total | 830 | 510 | 7.4 | 7.7 | |
Total |
| 2640 | 1860 | 6.2 | 6.6 | |
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.
Totals are formed from unrounded parts prior to rounding. For this reason, rounded totals may not equal the sum of their rounded parts.
~ denotes suppressed values. Values were suppressed if (i) the values were five or fewer or (ii) ethnicity declaration rates were below 60%. Low numbers are suppressed, in conjunction with the rounding policy to prevent disclosure in accordance with the Data Protection Act, 1998.
Staff without a NOMS band include NPS graded staff and Senior Civil Servants.