Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff employed at each women's prison are (a) male and (b) female.

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The table below shows how many staff are employed at each women’s prison by male and female staff. Further information can be found at Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service workforce quarterly: June 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Table 1: HMPPS staff in post in Women's Estate, by gender as at 30 June 2021

Notes:

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.