Prisons: Staff

(asked on 10th July 2017) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Sam Gyimah Portrait
Sam Gyimah
This question was answered on 18th July 2017

The following are the current 1,300-capacity category C prisons:

  • HM Prison Oakwood
  • HM Prison Northumberland
  • HM Prison and Young Offender Institution Parc
  • HM Prison Highpoint

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.

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