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.
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.