Prison Service: Labour Turnover

(asked on 20th October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the effect on retention of experienced prison staff of instances where the payment of a market supplement to new staff makes new staff better remunerated.


Answered by
Lucy Frazer Portrait
Lucy Frazer
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
This question was answered on 28th October 2020

The market supplement was introduced in 2017 in 32 prisons and is being paid to all Band 3 Prison Officers on the Fair and Sustainable pay structures to ensure that new recruits are not better remunerated than our experienced staff.

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