Prison Officers: Early Retirement
(asked on 27th June 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 18 May 2023 to Question 184942, Prison Service: Early Retirement, what proportion of prison staff aged 60 or over retired due to (a) ill health and (b) injury in each of the last 10 years.
Information on the proportion of prison staff aged 60 and over who left HMPPS due to ‘ill health retirement’ is given in the following table. Figures are presented annually for the last ten years.
There is not a specific, centrally held, leaving reason for ‘injury’ and so this part cannot be answered.
The data provided relates to headcount and not FTE.
Table 1: Proportion of prison staff aged 60+1 who retired due to ill health2, from 01 April to 31 March; 2013/14 to 2022/23
Financial Year | Proportion of prison staff aged 60+ who retired due to ill health | Proportion of retiring prison staff 60+ who retired due to ill health |
2013/14 | 0.10% | 0.57% |
2014/15 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
2015/16 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
2016/17 | ~ | ~ |
2017/18 | 0.20% | 1.28% |
2018/19 | 0.20% | 1.65% |
2019/20 | 0.30% | 2.54% |
2020/21 | 0.20% | 1.98% |
2021/22 | ~ | ~ |
2022/23 | 0.40% | 3.34% |
Notes
1. Age as at time of leaving.
2. Includes the following reasons for leaving: 'Retirement: Medical', 'Retirement: Ill Health Retirement', 'Retirement: Ill Health Tier 1', 'Retirement: Ill Health Tier 2', 'Retirement: Ill Health Tier 3'.
~ denotes suppressed values of 2 or fewer or other values which would allow values of 2 or fewer to be derived by subtraction. Low numbers are suppressed to prevent disclosure in accordance with the Data Protection Act, 2018.