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Written question asked by Richard Burgon (Labour) on Thursday, 4 July 2019, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 8 July 2019. It was answered by Robert Buckland (Conservative) on Thursday, 11 July 2019 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

Prison Officers

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total number of days of detached duty worked was in each of the prisons in the 10 Prisons Project in (a) the last six months of 2017 and (b) the last six months of 2018.

Answer

Detached Duty (DD) 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. The deployment of staff between prisons on DD is a regular and normal part of prison resourcing; the number of Prison Officers deployed on DD varies from one week to the next in order to reflect operational circumstances.

Detached Duty is allocated on a cycle (4 week average) rather than on a month by month (or day by day) basis. The prisons in the 10 Prisons Project are: Hull, Humber, Isis, Leeds, Lindholme, Moorland, Nottingham, Ranby, Wealtsun, Wormwood Scrubs. Of these, only Isis (total of 26 weeks) and Nottingham (total of 5 weeks) received Detached Duty support in the last six months of 2017.

Annex A shows the number of staff deployed at HMPs Isis and Nottingham, each week, in the last six months of 2017.

There was no Detached Duty deployment at any prison in the 10 Prisons Project in the last six months of 2018.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
273442
Session
2017-19
Attachment
Annex A
Subjects
Deployment Prison officers
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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