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National Offender Management Service: Manpower

Answer

I refer the hon. Gentleman to answer I gave the hon. Member for Walthamstow (Mr. Gerrard) on 9 March 2010, Official Report, column 246-48W. Information on the number of staff employed in Regional Offender Management Offices in January 2008 is not available. At that time the staff reported to the Home Office but the records are no longer available and would require a substantial reactivation exercise that would entail disproportionate cost, to obtain.The closest available data relates to October 2008, when there were 451 staff in Prison Service area offices and 119 staff in Regional Offender Management offices.The number of staff employed within each office is provided in the following table:

Staff employed within Director of Offender Management Offices, 31 December 2009
Region	Staff-employed	Staff declared surplus¹	Vacancies
East Midlands	53	2	8
East of England	50	1	14
London	32	6	13
North East	40	5	2
North West	81	19	12
South East	98	8	23
South West	31	8	14
Wales	26	0	12
West Midlands	38	6	13
Yorkshire and Humberside	35	6	3
Total	483	61	114
¹ Staff declared surplus are also included in the 'Staff employed' column.

The process of change in the NOMS organisations in the nine English regions and Wales in 2009, covered 576 jobs and the new structure, which is now in place, has reduced this number by 180 to 396.The information for the national headquarters does not include staff reporting through the NOMS Shared Service Centre or area service teams who are based in prisons but organised on a regional basis.

Regional and National headquarters 31 December 2004 to 2009
	Region	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Area/Regional Office	East Midlands	37	54	61	56	62	53
	East of England	34	44	47	44	56	50
	London	25	28	30	28	37	32
	North East	20	28	38	38	41	40
	North West	126	182	210	205	80	81
	South East	125	143	127	116	121	98
	South west	r32	36	34	26	25	31
	Wales	13	16	19	18	27	26
	West Midlands	49	48	54	42	34	38
	Yorkshire and Humberside	39	48	55	29	35	35
Area/Regional Office Total		501	627	675	602	518	483
National Headquarters¹		1906	1351	1398	1297	2207	2188
¹ In 2005 a large number of staff transferred to the original NOMS headquarters, which was part of the core Home Office. The staff transferred back in 2008 when NOMS HQ was formed. These staff are not included in the table for the period when they were part of the core Home Office.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

508 c1084-6W; 324869

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Staff National Offender Management Service

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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