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Open Prisons: Staff

Answer

The government has committed to recruit a net increase of 2500 prison officers by December 2018. In addition to the recruitment activity to fill these 2500 new posts, there is ongoing recruitment activity to fill current vacancies, and vacancies which arise.

The number of staff employed in each open prison is provided in the table below.

HMPPS full time equivalent staff employed in open prisons, 2010-2017:

	Full time equivalent staff in post as at:
	31 March 2010	31 March 2011		31 March 2012	31 March 2013	31 March 2014	31 March 2015	31 March 2016	31 March 2017	30 June 2017
Askham Grange	74	61	60		57	59	56	63	65	65
East Sutton Park	58	57	54		53	46	47	52	59	53
Ford	156	153	148		145	130	125	135	139	143
Hatfield								131	133	133
Hollesley Bay	141	128	127		133	127	125	126	127	128
Kirkham	224	237	200		191	189	187	181	180	181
Leyhill	191	197	193		189	168	151	144	147	142
North Sea Camp	133	123	111		122	114	126	124	120	123
Sudbury	190	168	142		143	138	145	144	145	142
Thorn Cross	186	176	166		153	141	142	131	139	138
Grand Total	1,351	1,299	1,201		1,187	1,111	1,104	1,232	1,255	1,248

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

7257

Session

2017-19

Subjects

Staff Open prisons

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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