Young Offender Institutions: Ethnic Groups

(asked on 20th November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate he has made of when the proportion of ethnic minority people in senior leadership roles in the youth secure estate will be the same as the proportion in the wider working population.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 23rd November 2023

As of 30 June 2023, 19.2 per cent of all Youth Custody Service staff who declared their ethnicity were from an ethnic minority background, up from 11.9% in 2010. It is not possible to disaggregate this figure to show how many were in senior leadership roles.

More generally, the proportion of His Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS) senior leaders (from HMPPS Band 10 upwards) from an ethnic minority background has increased from 4.8 per cent in December 2019 to 9.5 per cent in 2022. HMPPS is continuing to work to the goal of ensuring that the representation of ethnic minority senior staff matches the working age population by 2030.

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