Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) people in operational support grades, (b) prison officers, (c) senior officers and supervising officers and (d) principal officers and custodial managers served in HM prisons in each year since 2000.
The number of band 2 operational support grade staff and band 3 to 5 prison officers employed in HM prisons each year is provided in the table below. Staff in post data is only held since April 2002.
Table 1: Band 2 operational support grade staff and band 3-5 prison officers in post (FTE), in Public Sector prisons1, as at 30 June 2002-20192.
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Date | Band 2 / Operational Support | Bands 3-4 / Prison Officer (incl. specialists) | Band 4 / Supervising Officer | Band 5 / Custodial Managers |
30-Jun-02 | 6,736 | 17,911 | 3,588 | 1,192 |
30-Jun-03 | 7,278 | 18,356 | 3,647 | 1,234 |
30-Jun-04 | 7,514 | 18,758 | 3,711 | 1,228 |
30-Jun-05 | 7,224 | 18,905 | 3,742 | 1,175 |
30-Jun-06 | 7,360 | 19,174 | 3,791 | 1,166 |
30-Jun-07 | 7,588 | 19,416 | 3,844 | 1,182 |
30-Jun-08 | 8,014 | 19,650 | 3,964 | 1,223 |
30-Jun-09 | 7,797 | 20,102 | 3,941 | 1,179 |
30-Jun-10 | 7,621 | 19,837 | 3,776 | 902 |
30-Jun-11 | 7,293 | 19,563 | 3,510 | 759 |
30-Jun-12 | 6,846 | 18,406 | 3,291 | 618 |
30-Jun-13 | 6,105 | 17,083 | 2,224 | 1,381 |
30-Jun-14 | 4,922 | 14,623 | 1,847 | 1,318 |
30-Jun-15 | 4,752 | 14,988 | 1,905 | 1,308 |
30-Jun-16 | 4,753 | 14,556 | 2,015 | 1,307 |
30-Jun-17 | 4,474 | 15,283 | 1,904 | 1,334 |
30-Jun-18 | 4,623 | 18,021 | 1,898 | 1,414 |
30-Jun-19 | 4,662 | 18,535 | 1,918 | 1,543 |
Notes
1. Includes staff who were employed in HM prisons only and does not include those based in HQ, such as officers who are on detached duty with no fixed location, POELT trainers, or staff redeploying from closing establishments who are allocated to an area office in the HR database before being reallocated to a prison in the database.
2. The Ministry of Justice does not centrally hold any data on HMPPS staff before 2002.