Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 10 March 2020 to Question 24398, Prison Officers: Resignations, what the resignation rate for all operational prison officers was at each prison in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
The table in the attached document provides the nationally compiled resignation statistics for staff at Band 3, 4 and 5 since 2015.
Resignation rates by prison by individual grade is not published.
We have recruited a huge number of prison officers with some 4,200 more on the landings than three years ago. Annual fluctuations are expected, but we work hard to retain our staff – giving them the biggest pay rise in a decade, additional training, tools like PAVA and body-worn cameras to make their jobs safer.