Prisons: Staff

(asked on 13th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether private sector prison staff will receive bonuses equivalent to the bonuses public sector prison staff have received throughout the covid-19 outbreak.


Answered by
Victoria Atkins Portrait
Victoria Atkins
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
This question was answered on 21st January 2022

All staffing matters in privately managed prisons, including bonuses, are the responsibility of individual contractors. There is no requirement in the contracts to agree such matters with the Ministry of Justice.

Private providers play an important role in the prison estate and we continue to monitor them to ensure they maintain safe, decent and secure prisons.

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