Prison Officers: Resignations

(asked on 12th March 2020) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Lucy Frazer Portrait
Lucy Frazer
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
This question was answered on 17th March 2020

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.

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