Prison Governors
(asked on 17th October 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prison governors have worked at (a) two, (b) three, (c) four and (d) more than four prisons since 2010.
From 01 January 2010 to 30 June 2023 there have been 295 prison governors employed at public sector prisons. The number of prisons they have been governors of in that period is shown in Table 1.
Table 1 – The number of prisons that governors have governed between 01 January 2010 and 30 June 2023
Number of prisons governed | Governors | Percentage |
1 | 145 | 49% |
2 | 90 | 31% |
3 | 49 | 17% |
4 | 7 | 2% |
More than 4 | 4 | 1% |
Total | 295 | 100% |
Notes:
1. Figures relate to governing governors only (band 10-11) and do not include deputy governors temporarily covering this role.
2. Only a single governor is recorded for each prison, though it is possible for the system to temporarily show more than governor at a prison at a time, any duplicates per prison are removed.
3. Source of data: HMPPS - Single Operating Platform