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, what the grounds for dismissal were of each of the 133 staff dismissed for the reason labelled Other.


Answered by
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Rory Stewart
This question was answered on 26th April 2018

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.

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