Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of how many staff are employed in a 1,300-capacity category C prison (a) directly and (b) in the supply chain.
The following are the current 1,300-capacity category C prisons:
Latest figures on the number of staff directly employed at HMP Highpoint (which is a public sector prison) can be found in HM Prison and Probation Service annual workforce statistics bulletin in table 12 at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/614643/noms-workforce-tables-march-2017.xlsx.
Latest figures on the number of staff employed at HM Prison Oakwood, and HM Prison Northumberland (which are privately operated prisons) are as follows:
| Full-time equivalent staff in post, June 2017 |
HM Prison Oakwood | 504.4 |
HM Prison Northumberland | 429.2 |
HM Prison and Young Offender Institution Parc | 682.1 |
We do not hold figures on the number of staff employed as part of a supply chain.