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Written question asked by Richard Burgon (Labour) on Wednesday, 2 May 2018, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 9 May 2018 (named day). It was answered by Rory Stewart (Conservative) on Wednesday, 9 May 2018 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

Prison Officers

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers that work at prisons where the overall performance is rated as being of concern worked on detached duty at another prison at for a period in 2018.

Answer

The latest available prison performance ratings data cover the period 2016/17 and are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-annual-performance-ratings-2016-to-2017

40 prisons were rated as having overall performance of concern in 2016/17. There were the equivalent of 62 full time prison officers from these prisons working on Detached Duty at other public-sector prisons during January, 49 in February and 61 in March 2018.

There were the equivalent of 16 full time prison officers from prisons in special measures working on Detached Duty at other public-sector prisons during January, 10 in February and 7 in March 2018.

Detached Duty is one of the sensible and proportionate measures we take to ensure we run safe and decent regimes in prisons and respond appropriately to any operational issues that arise.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
140828
Session
2017-19
Grouped for answer
Yes
Subjects
Deployment Prisons Standards Prison officers
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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