Prison Service: Incentives

(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 Bonus Payment policies in each of the last five years, broken down by grade of staff who have received a payment under those schemes.


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

The figures requested from 2016 to 2019 are provided below. The figures shown are for HMPPS (shown as NOMS, National Offender Management Service), therefore inclusive of Prison and Probation staff. A breakdown by grade is not available.

Year

In-year performance payments (£)

Number of staff receiving an in-year payment

End of year performance payments (£)

Number of staff receiving an end of year payment

Total

2016/17

£762,445

1360

£386,758

1416

£1,149,203

2017/18

£1,779,633

2473

£783,052

1803

£2,562,685

2018/19

£1,521,995

2139

£867,271

1902

£2,389,266

We will be publishing both the 2019/20 and 2020/21 figures before the end of the year. This data may not include COVID payments as there were not paid under ‘HMPPS Bonus payment policies’ but in direct response to an emergency.

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