Prison Officers: Dismissal

(asked on 8th November 2023) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 17th November 2023

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:

  1. Band 3-5 Prison Officers includes Band 3-4 / Prison Officer (incl specialists), Band 4 / Supervising Officer and Band 5 / Custodial Managers.
  2. Figures relating to current financial year are provisional, and may be subject to change in future.
  3. As with all HR databases, extracts are taken at a fixed point in time, to ensure consistency of reporting. However the database itself is dynamic and where updates to the database are made late, subsequent to the taking of the extract, these updates will not be reflected in figures produced by the extract. For this reason, HR data are unlikely to be precisely accurate.
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