Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers in England and Wales left the Prison Service while serving in HMP Birmingham after less than (a) six months, (b) twelve months and (c) eighteen months from the start of their employment in each of the last eight years.
Prison officer numbers across the prison estate are at their highest in five years, which is vital to ensuring prisons are safe, secure and decent. We commend all hard-working prison staff who do a vital job in protecting the public every day, often in very challenging, difficult and dangerous circumstances and we want all prison staff to stay and progress their careers. Private providers continue to play an important role in the prison estate, and have the ability to set their own recruitment and retention policies.
This table shows the number of prison custody officers that left the Prison Service while serving in HMP Birmingham in the calendar years from 2010 to 2018.
Length of service prior to leaving | Year | |||||||||
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | Total | |
0-6 Months | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 25 | 79 | 37 | 154 |
6-12 Months | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 23 |
12-18 Months | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 17 |
Total | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 33 | 93 | 46 | 194 |