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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		Lindholme	Moorland
31-Mar-10
	Operational	352	386
	Non-Operational	124	92
	Total	476	479
31-Mar-11
	Operational	341	397
	Non-Operational	120	86
	Total	462	484
31-Mar-12
	Operational	323	393
	Non-Operational	117	106
	Total	441	500
31-Mar-13
	Operational	296	354
	Non-Operational	104	101
	Total	401	456
	1 Prior to 2015 Hatfield was reported with Moorland

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

51945

Session

2016-17

Subjects

Staff HMP Lindholme HMP/YOI Moorland HMP/YOI Hatfield

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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