Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many band three to five prison officers left the prison service in each of the last 10 years by ethnicity.
The number of band 3-5 prison officers who left HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) by ethnicity for the past ten years is shown in the table below.
Table 1: Band 3-5 Prison Officer1 leavers to HMPPS by ethnicity2 for the years October to September 2011/12 to 2020/213
Headcount
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| 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 |
All Ethnic minorities (excluding white minorities) groups | 59 | 132 | 75 | 74 | 68 | 108 | 54 | 121 | 132 | 141 | |
| Of which: |
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| Asian or Asian British4 | 13 | 17 | 16 | 18 | 19 | 29 | 16 | 35 | 45 | 50 |
| Black or Black British | 22 | 62 | 31 | 32 | 27 | 35 | 17 | 48 | 45 | 41 |
| Other ethnic group | 15 | 32 | 19 | 12 | 13 | 31 | 16 | 28 | 29 | 44 |
| Mixed Ethnic Groups | 9 | 21 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 6 |
White | 1,147 | 2,427 | 1,413 | 1,241 | 1,309 | 1,325 | 1,101 | 1,473 | 1,525 | 1,702 | |
Not known / Prefer not to say | 106 | 244 | 163 | 176 | 343 | 520 | 1,146 | 1,272 | 676 | 744 | |
Total |
| 1,312 | 2,803 | 1,651 | 1,491 | 1,720 | 1,953 | 2,301 | 2,866 | 2,333 | 2,587 |
Source: HMPPS - Oracle HRMS and Single Operating Platform
Data Quality and Scope: Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the data collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system.
Movements due to machinery of Government changes or due to staff transferring to or from the private sector as a result of changes in the management of establishments are not included in these tables.
Notes:
~ denotes suppressed values of 2 or fewer or other values which would allow values of 2 or fewer to be derived by subtraction. Low numbers are suppressed to prevent disclosure in accordance with the Data Protection Act, 2018.