Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions staff at HMP Ranby have been ordered to extend scheduled shifts in each of the last six months.

Fewer than five staff at HMP Ranby were ordered by the Governor to extend their scheduled shifts in the last six months.

We cannot provide an exact figure where the true number falls between one and five. We believe that the release of some of this information would risk identification of the individuals concerned and it should not be assumed that the actual figure represented falls at any particular point within this scale; ‘five or fewer’ is used as a replacement value from which it would be difficult to isolate or extract any individual data.

Staff in minus hours of their contractual working hours will be asked or, when necessary if they refuse, be ordered to extend their shift when there is a need to maintain safe and decent regimes.