Crown Prosecution Service: Coronavirus

(asked on 26th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, how many and what proportion of CPS staff have had to self-isolate as a result of the covid-19 outbreak; and what the (a) role and (b) staffing grade of those staff is.


Answered by
Michael Ellis Portrait
Michael Ellis
This question was answered on 3rd February 2021

The Crown Prosecution Service (‘CPS’) holds data on staff who have been absent due to COVID-19 and received Special Leave with Pay. The Table below summarises that data, with the column labelled ‘Special Leave With Pay – Other reasons’ including those who have self-isolated. This column shows that 253 staff (approximately 3.8% of the workforce) fall within this category. However, in general, those who have self-isolated will predominantly have continued to work remotely and will not have needed to take time away from the workplace.

Grade

Special Leave with pay-Caring responsibilities (number of staff)

Special Leave with pay-Other reasons (number of staff)

Special Leave with pay-respiratory (number of staff)

Totals

Headcount

Percentage of grade

A1

2

6

1

9

13

69.23%

A2

52

66

118

1130

10.44%

B2

21

7

28

260

10.77%

B3

18

8

26

207

12.56%

Crown Advocate

9

2

11

194

5.67%

Crown Prosecutor

10

2

12

240

5%

Level D

12

2

14

163

8.59%

Level E

1

1

63

1.59%

Legal Manager 1

12

6

1

19

290

6.55%

Legal Manager 2

3

3

100

3%

Paralegal Assistant

17

17

1

35

260

13.46%

Paralegal Business Manager

8

3

11

109

10.09%

Paralegal Officer

36

23

59

609

9.69%

Senior Crown Prosecutor

120

53

3

176

1726

10.2%

Specialist Prosecutor

21

14

1

36

211

17.06%

Senior Specialist Prosecutor

2

1

3

16

18.75%

Senior Legal Manager/SCS

2

2

81

2.47%

AP

9

4

13

141

9.22%

B1/Legal Trainee/EO

47

39

3

89

735

12.11%

402

253

10

665

6594

10.08%

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