Prison Service: Dismissal
(asked on 19th April 2018) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 3 April 2018 to Question 134276, on Prison Service: Dismissal, how many of those 419 cases of dismissal resulted in referrals to the police; what those referrals were for; and what the outcomes of those referrals were.
The number of band 2-5 staff in the Prison Service in England and Wales who have been dismissed by reason of dismissal, including a breakdown of the ‘Other’ category, are provided in the table below:
Table 1: Number of band 2-5 staff in the Prison Service who have been dismissed, by reason, January - December 2017
| Headcount of staff |
Conduct | 73 |
Unsatisfactory Attendance/Medical Inefficiency1 | 201 |
Poor Performance | 12 |
Other | 133 |
Conversion2 | 95 |
Compromise Agreement3 | 5 |
Unknown | 33 |
Total | 419 |
1 Since January 2017, information regarding dismissals as a result of medical inefficiencies have been recorded as unsatisfactory attendances. Therefore, these categories have been combined.
2 where a category under the outgoing online HR platform is not directly mapped to the incoming HR platform (SOP).
3 legally binding contracts which can be used to end an employment relationship on agreed terms. It waives an individual right to make a claim covered by the agreement to an Employment Tribunal.
The data on referrals to the police is not held centrally.