Prison Officers: Pay

(asked on 26th October 2021) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the Prison Service Payment Plus policy in each of the last five years, broken down by grade of staff that money has been paid to.


Answered by
Victoria Atkins Portrait
Victoria Atkins
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
This question was answered on 3rd November 2021

The requested figures are available for years going back to 2016 and are presented below. It should be noted the hourly rate for Payment Plus increased by £5 per hour from £17 to £22 during 2017, and the Payment Plus pay bill was higher in 2020/21, than in the previous two years, due to the additional resourcing challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Grade

2016/17 *

2017/18

2018/19

2019/20

2020/21

Band 3 Officer

£30,134,418

£40,417,136

£28,424,839

£26,446,349

£39,896,675

Band 4 Officer

£5,032,835

£7,372,709

£5,703,364

£4,366,680

£7,386,766

Band 5 Officer

£1,990,098

£2,511,523

£2,006,305

£1,668,558

£3,582,568

Total Cost

£37,157,350

£50,301,368

£36,134,509

£32,481,587

£50,866,009

*costs reflect 11 months only - December 2016 data was unavailable.

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