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Written question asked by John McDonnell (Labour) on Tuesday, 22 May 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 24 May 2007. It was answered by Gerry Sutcliffe (Labour) on Tuesday, 5 June 2007 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

Dovegate Prison

Question
To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice what the cost was to Her Majesty's Prison Service of the deployment of staff to HM Prison Dovegate from other establishments during the disturbance on 2 February.
Answer

There is no record of an incident occurring at Dovegate prison on 2 February. There is a record of a concerted indiscipline there on 29 January.The approximate cost of staff salaries in deploying staff from other prisons to that incident is £18,405.60. This is based upon figures set out in the following table:

Column A Column B Column C Column D Column E
Prison establishment Tornado Unit Number of staff Salary cost per member of staff per hour (£) Salary cost per Tornado Unit per hour(£) Salary cost of listed Tornado Unit staff (column D x 8 hours) (£)
Leicester 15 15.38 230.07 1,840.56
Blakenhurst 15 15.38 230.07 1,840.56
Stoke Heath 15 15.38 230.07 1,840.56
Lowdham Grange 15 15.38 230.07 1,840.56
Whatton 15 15.38 230.07 1,840.56
Swinfen Hall 15 15.38 230.07 1,840.56
Stafford 15 15.38 230.07 1,840.56
Nottingham 15 15.38 230.07 1,840.56
Birmingham 15 15.38 230.07 1,840.56
Gartree 15 15.38 230.07 1,840.56
Totals 150 153.80 2,300.70 18,405.60
Notes:
1. Column B is based upon the number of staff per Tornado Unit (12 plus 2 unit commanders plus 1 driver).
2. Column C is the Tornado call out additional allowance ( salary gross per hour) made to each member of staff. It does not take into account any extra salary related costs such as superannuation (although such payments are not pensionable) and costs such as travel costs to and from home to the parent establishment for which staff may claim re-imbursement, and subsistence payments.
3. Column E is based upon a 6 hour incident duration at Dovegate plus two hours average travelling time—8 hours. The actual time on and off duty for staff will depend upon travelling distance from the parent prison establishment.
4. The figures quoted only account for the costs of establishment based staff, they do not account for costs incurred by the deployment of other national resources that are not establishment based, or the costs incurred by opening the Gold Command suite.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
139706; 461 c375-6W
Session
2006-07
Subjects
HMP Dovegate
Link
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