Prison Officers: Resignations
(asked on 18th January 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many resignations of prison officers there were in each month of 2010 and each subsequent year to 2021; and what the annual leaving rate was as a proportion of the workforce in those time periods.
The resignation volume for prison officers for each month between January 2010 to September 2021 has been provided in a separate excel table.
Table 1 shows the annual leaving rate of prison officers between 2009/10 and 2020/21 (by financial year). The latest published data has also been provided for 12 months to 30 September 2021.
Table 1: Underlying leaving rate of band 3-5 permanent prison officers1, 2009/10 to 2020/21, and 12 months to September 2021
(Headcount)
| 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 12 Months to 30 September 2021 |
Leaving rate | 3.4% | 3.7% | 4.2% | 4.8% | 4.9% | 7.1% | 7.8% | 9.7% | 10.3% | 11.5% | 12.2% | 9.1% | 11.1% |
Source:
HMPPS - Oracle HRMS and Single Operating Platform
Data quality and scope:
Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system. Movements due to machinery of Government changes or due to staff transferring to or from the private sector as a result of changes in the management of establishments are not included in these tables.
Notes:
1). Prison officers include includes Band 3-4 / Prison Officers (incl specialists), Band 4 / Supervising Officers, and Band 5 / Custodial Managers.
2). Movements due to machinery of Government changes or due to staff transferring to or from the private sector as a result of changes in the management of establishments are not included in these tables.
3). Staff with a permanent contract of employment with HMPPS.
4). As with all HR databases, extracts are taken at a fixed point in time, to ensure consistency of reporting. However, the database itself is dynamic and where updates to the database are made late, subsequent to the taking of the extract, these updates will not be reflected in figures produced by the extract. For this reason, HR data are unlikely to be precisely accurate.
5). Does not include voluntary early departure or redundancy. In past editions of the HMPPS workforce statistical release, early retirements were also excluded from the calculation of leaving rates. Since the workforce statistics bulletin covering the period to 30 June 2017, these exits have been included in the leaving rate.
(p) Figures relating to current financial year are provisional and may be subject to change in future iterations of the HMPPS workforce statistical release.