Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers were dismissed from employment for what reasons in the last 12 months.
The HM Prison and Probation Service workforce quarterly publication covers staffing information, including the number of leavers by reason for leaving by grade. The latest publication covers data up to 30 September 2023. The figures requested can be found in Table 14b of this publication and have been reproduced below:
Table 1: Band 3-5 Prison Officer dismissals by reason in the 12 months to September 2023
Reason for leaving | Headcount |
Dismissal – Unsatisfactory attendance/Medical Inefficiency* | 360 |
Dismissal – Conduct | 97 |
Dismissal – Poor performance | 4 |
Dismissal Other | 4 |
Total | 465 |
*‘Medical Inefficiency’ is a technical term which has been used to ensure the terminology in this response is aligned with the definitions used in published workforce statistics.
Notes to Table 1: