Prison Governors
(asked on 13th January 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times has a prison governor (a) resigned, (b) been sacked and (c) left their position for any other reason in each year since 2010.
Information on the number of prison governors who have left their posts within the public sector Prison Service, broken down by reason for departure, between 2009/10 and 2014/15 are set out in the table below.
Table: Headcount of Prison Governors Leaving Posts, 2009/10 to 2014/15
Year | Dismissed | Resigned | Other Leavers from Prison Service | Transfer to Another Post Within Prison Service | Total Departures |
2009/10 | ~ | ~ | 10 | 40 | 50 |
2010/11 | ~ | 10 | 10 | 20 | 40 |
2011/12 | ~ | ~ | 20 | 50 | 70 |
2012/13 | ~ | ~ | ~ | 20 | 30 |
2013/14 | ~ | ~ | ~ | 30 | 40 |
2014/15 | ~ | ~ | ~ | 30 | 30 |
Total | ~ | 10 | 40 | 190 | 250 |
All figures are rounded to the nearest 10, with numbers ending in 5 rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias. As with all HR databases, extracts are taken at a fixed point in time to ensure consistency of reporting. However the database itself is dynamic, and where updates to the database are made late, subsequent to the taking of the extract, these updates will not be reflected in figures produced by the extract. For this reason, HR data is unlikely to be precisely accurate, and to present unrounded figures would be to overstate the accuracy of the figures. Rounding to 10 accurately depicts the level of certainty that is held with these figures.
Totals are formed from unrounded parts prior to rounding. For this reason, rounded totals may not equal the sum of their rounded parts.
~ denotes suppressed values of 5 or fewer. Low numbers are suppressed in conjunction with the rounding policy to prevent disclosure in accordance with the Data Protection Act, 1998.