Berwyn Prison: Prison Officers

(asked on 27th October 2021) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will provide a breakdown of the cost of recruiting and training each new band 3 prisoner officer at HMP Berwyn.


Answered by
Victoria Atkins Portrait
Victoria Atkins
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
This question was answered on 1st November 2021

HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) operates a centralised recruitment model to recruit and train new prison officers. Recruitment and training costs are not attributed to individual prisons but are averaged based on a variable cost per hire calculation for all recruitment and training activity. To obtain the information requested specifically for HMP Berwyn could only be obtained at disproportionate cost and would contain commercially sensitive information relating to partner suppliers.

The overall estimated cost to recruit and train a new Band 3 Prison Officer is currently around £13,000 as published in the Prison Service Pay Review Body report. Further information can be found on page 55 at: Prison Service Pay Review Body - Twentieth Report on England and Wales 2021 (publishing.service.gov.uk) Please be aware that the figures contained in the document are estimates and can change as other assumptions change.

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