Prison officers do a challenging and vital job to help protect the public and we are committed to making sure we have enough staff to deliver safe regimes in our prisons.

Detached duty (DD) is one of the sensible and proportionate measures taken to ensure the safe and decent running of regimes in prisons, and respond appropriately to any operational issues that arise. The deployment of staff between prisons on detached duty is a regular and normal part of prison resourcing and the number of prison officers deployed will reflect operational circumstances.

When there is a need to accommodate staff in hotels, we work hard to ensure the best possible value for money for the taxpayer and have controls in place to help keep costs to a minimum. Where possible, bookings are for specifically timed trains and always in standard class to help keep costs to a minimum.

The Government is investing £2.75bn to modernise and maintain our prisons, create 10,000 additional places, and step up security to stop the flow of drugs and mobile phones.

Please find below a breakdown of travel costs by method:

The amount spent on other expenses claims for Prison Officers as outlined in the Travel and Subsistence policy (day and night subsistence, lodging allowance, etc):

The National Tactical Response Group (NTRG) has been called to each prison in each year since 2010 is provided in the attached document.

The NTRG provides additional support staff or resources to prisons to help them deal with a variety of incidents. The overwhelming majority of call outs are for non-violent incidents, including where they attended as a precaution and when the situation was resolved locally.

We do not tolerate violence or disruptive behaviour in our prisons. We’ve recruited around 4,300 additional officers since October 2016 and are spending an extra £100 million on airport-style security, x-ray scanners and phone-blocking technology. This is part of the Government’s new £2.75bn investment to modernise and maintain our prisons, create 10,000 additional places, and step up security to stop the flow of drugs and mobile phones.

We are also committed to ensuring our prison officers have the tools they need to do the job safely with body worn cameras, ‘police-style’ handcuffs and restraints, and PAVA incapacitant spray.

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

The attached table shows the number of staff deployed through National Detached Duty to the prisons rated as being of serious concern in the Annual Prison Performance Ratings 2017-18 for the last six months of 2017 and 2018. Figures are not included for HMP Peterborough as privately managed prisons are not supported with National Detached Duty. It should be noted that the figures represent the number of staff in place during the week commencing the date shown, it is not known how many days per week that staff would have been deployed. It is only possible to obtain data for days worked at disproportionate cost.

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.

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 basis. Annex A shows the average number of staff deployed in each Detached Duty cycle in 2018.

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.

Annex A attached shows the number [and cycle] of staff deployed to the six of the prisons in the 10 prisons project (Isis, Hull, Moorland, Nottingham, Ranby and Wormwood Scrubs) for a period since 2015. Detached Duty is allocated on a cycle (4 week average) rather than on a month by month basis.

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.

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.

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 62 prison officers from these prisons working on Detached Duty at other public-sector prisons during January 2018.

There were 16 prison officers from prisons in special measures working on Detached Duty at other public-sector prisons during January 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.

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 62 prison officers from these prisons working on Detached Duty at other public-sector prisons during January 2018.

There were 16 prison officers from prisons in special measures working on Detached Duty at other public-sector prisons during January 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.

Prison officers do a challenging and vital job to help protect the public and we are committed to making sure we have enough staff to deliver safe regimes in our prisons.

Detached duty is vital to ensure we manage estates, as one of the sensible and proportionate measures we take to cover resourcing pressures and ensure we run safe and decent regimes in prisons as well as being able to respond appropriately to any operational issues that arise.

In 2016 the former Secretary of State announced HMPPS would be recruiting an additional 2,500 prison officers by December 2018. Good progress is being made to hit this target, with 1,970 additional officers recruited by 31^st December 2017. These new staff will reduce the need for Detached Duty.

When there is a need to accommodate staff in hotels, we work hard to ensure the best possible value for money for the taxpayer and have controls in place to help keep costs to a minimum.

Where possible, bookings are for specifically timed trains in standard class to help keep costs to a minimum.

Data prior to 2013 for expenses incurred through Detached Duty does not exist. Please see attached data from 2013 onwards.

Prison officers do a challenging and vital job to help protect the public and we are committed to making sure we have enough staff to deliver safe regimes in our prisons.

Detached duty is vital to ensure we manage estates, as one of the sensible and proportionate measures we take to cover resourcing pressures and ensure we run safe and decent regimes in prisons as well as being able to respond appropriately to any operational issues that arise.

In 2016 the former Secretary of State announced HMPPS would be recruiting an additional 2,500 prison officers by December 2018. Good progress is being made to hit this target, with 1,970 additional officers recruited by 31^st December 2017. These new staff will reduce the need for Detached Duty.

When there is a need to accommodate staff in hotels, we work hard to ensure the best possible value for money for the taxpayer and have controls in place to help keep costs to a minimum.

Where possible, bookings are for specifically timed trains in standard class to help keep costs to a minimum.

Data prior to 2013 for expenses incurred through Detached Duty does not exist. Please see attached data from 2013 onwards.

Prison officers do a challenging and vital job to help protect the public and we are committed to making sure we have enough staff to deliver safe regimes in our prisons.

Detached duty is vital to ensure we manage estates, as one of the sensible and proportionate measures we take to cover resourcing pressures and ensure we run safe and decent regimes in prisons as well as being able to respond appropriately to any operational issues that arise.

In 2016 the former Secretary of State announced HMPPS would be recruiting an additional 2,500 prison officers by December 2018. Good progress is being made to hit this target, with 1,970 additional officers recruited by 31^st December 2017. These new staff will reduce the need for Detached Duty.

When there is a need to accommodate staff in hotels, we work hard to ensure the best possible value for money for the taxpayer and have controls in place to help keep costs to a minimum.

Where possible, bookings are for specifically timed trains in standard class to help keep costs to a minimum.

Data prior to 2013 for expenses incurred through Detached Duty does not exist. Please see attached data from 2013 onwards.

Prison officers do a challenging and vital job to help protect the public and we are committed to making sure we have enough staff to deliver safe regimes in our prisons.

Detached duty is vital to ensure we manage estates, as one of the sensible and proportionate measures we take to cover resourcing pressures and ensure we run safe and decent regimes in prisons as well as being able to respond appropriately to any operational issues that arise.

In 2016 the former Secretary of State announced HMPPS would be recruiting an additional 2,500 prison officers by December 2018. Good progress is being made to hit this target, with 1,970 additional officers recruited by 31^st December 2017. These new staff will reduce the need for Detached Duty.

When there is a need to accommodate staff in hotels, we work hard to ensure the best possible value for money for the taxpayer and have controls in place to help keep costs to a minimum.

Where possible, bookings are for specifically timed trains in standard class to help keep costs to a minimum.

Data prior to 2013 for expenses incurred through Detached Duty does not exist. Please see attached data from 2013 onwards.

Prison officers do a challenging and vital job to help protect the public and we are committed to making sure we have enough staff to deliver safe regimes in our prisons.

Detached duty is vital to ensure we manage estates, as one of the sensible and proportionate measures we take to cover resourcing pressures and ensure we run safe and decent regimes in prisons as well as being able to respond appropriately to any operational issues that arise.

In 2016 the former Secretary of State announced HMPPS would be recruiting an additional 2,500 prison officers by December 2018. Good progress is being made to hit this target, with 1,970 additional officers recruited by 31^st December 2017. These new staff will reduce the need for Detached Duty.

When there is a need to accommodate staff in hotels, we work hard to ensure the best possible value for money for the taxpayer and have controls in place to help keep costs to a minimum.

Where possible, bookings are for specifically timed trains in standard class to help keep costs to a minimum.

Data prior to 2013 for expenses incurred through Detached Duty does not exist. Please see attached data from 2013 onwards.

Prison officers do a challenging and vital job to help protect the public and we are committed to making sure we have enough staff to deliver safe regimes in our prisons.

Detached duty is vital to ensure we manage estates, as one of the sensible and proportionate measures we take to cover resourcing pressures and ensure we run safe and decent regimes in prisons as well as being able to respond appropriately to any operational issues that arise.

In 2016 the former Secretary of State announced HMPPS would be recruiting an additional 2,500 prison officers by December 2018. Good progress is being made to hit this target, with 1,970 additional officers recruited by 31^st December 2017. These new staff will reduce the need for Detached Duty.

When there is a need to accommodate staff in hotels, we work hard to ensure the best possible value for money for the taxpayer and have controls in place to help keep costs to a minimum.

Where possible, bookings are for specifically timed trains in standard class to help keep costs to a minimum.

Data prior to 2013 for expenses incurred through Detached Duty does not exist. Please see attached data from 2013 onwards.

Prison officers do a challenging and vital job to help protect the public and we are committed to making sure we have enough staff to deliver safe regimes in our prisons.

Detached duty is vital to ensure we manage estates, as one of the sensible and proportionate measures we take to cover resourcing pressures and ensure we run safe and decent regimes in prisons as well as being able to respond appropriately to any operational issues that arise.

In 2016 the former Secretary of State announced HMPPS would be recruiting an additional 2,500 prison officers by December 2018. Good progress is being made to hit this target, with 1,970 additional officers recruited by 31^st December 2017. These new staff will reduce the need for Detached Duty.

When there is a need to accommodate staff in hotels, we work hard to ensure the best possible value for money for the taxpayer and have controls in place to help keep costs to a minimum.

Where possible, bookings are for specifically timed trains in standard class to help keep costs to a minimum.

Data prior to 2013 for expenses incurred through Detached Duty does not exist. Please see attached data from 2013 onwards.

The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

The average number of prison staff deployed on DD each month (4 week average) over the period for which records are held of national detached duty is shown in the table below. The records show there has been a reduction in use of detached duty since 2014.

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.