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Prison Service: Staff

Answer

Safe prisons are fundamental to the proper functioning of our justice system. Our dedicated prison officers, who support tens of thousands of prisoners every day, are vital to the safe running of our prisons. We have recruited 2,541 in the 12 months to 30 September 2016 and are taking significant action to make sure we have appropriate staffing levels. As I announced last week, we will be investing in an additional 2,500 prison officers across the prison estate.

Information on staff in post within the establishments requested for 31 March from 2010 to 2013 is contained in the attached table. Operational includes, operational support staff, prison officers and operational managers. Non-operational covers all other directly employed grades within the establishment such as administration staff, managers, psychologists, chaplains and facilities staff.

Information from 2014 onwards is published in the NOMS Workforce Statistics Bulletin available on the gov.uk website.

Date		Durham		Frankland	Low Newton
31-Mar-10
	Operational	408		759	202
	Non-Operational		134	202	76
	Total	542		961	278
31-Mar-11
	Operational	393		739	200
	Non-Operational	128		198	77
	Total	521		937	277
31-Mar-12
	Operational	339		707	191
	Non-Operational	118		189	78
	Total	457		896	269
31-Mar-13
	Operational	304		681	185
	Non-Operational	95		178	71
	Total	399		860	256

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

51905

Session

2016-17

Subjects

Staff HMP Durham HMP Frankland HMP/YOI Low Newton

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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