Written question asked by Ross Cranston (Labour) on Tuesday, 7 September 2004, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 16 September 2004. It was answered by Paul Goggins (Labour) on Thursday, 16 September 2004 on behalf of the Home Office.

Home Office

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many job evaluation exercises have been carried out by the Prison Service in respect of (a) administrative and (b) Prison Service staff since 1997; and what the outcome was.

Answer: Ross Cranston: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many job evaluation exercises have been carried out by the Prison Service in respect of (a) administrative and (b) Prison Service staff since 1997; and what the outcome was. [187960] Paul Goggins: The Prison Service introduced Phase 1 of its review of pay and grading in July 2000. Affecting 2,500 middle and senior managers, including those in administrative and operational disciplines, it replaced more than 150 existing grades with a seven-payband common structure supported by a job evaluation system. Development of Phase 2 of the review, which would have applied to 38,000 lower-graded staff in disciplines that included administrative and operational grades, was halted in April 2002 and the project work subsumed within pay modernisation. In the process of developmental work, and to date, the Prison Service has carried out 507 individual job evaluations.

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