Andy Slaughter – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andy Slaughter on 2016-01-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison staff from which prisons were dismissed for conducting inappropriate relationships with prisoners in (a) 2010, (b) 2013, (c) 2014 and (d) 2015.

Andrew Selous

Information on the number of cases of staff dismissed for having had an inappropriate relationship with a prisoner/ ex-prisoner are set out in the table below. Information on conduct and discipline cases is published in the Ministry of Justice Diversity Report on a financial year basis and to maintain consistency with these figures the table is presented in the same way.

Table: Number of staff dismissed for having had an inappropriate relationship with a prisoner/ ex-prisoner, 2009/10 to 2014/15

No individual establishment had more than 5 cases in each year so only total numbers are provided in the table.

All figures are rounded to the nearest 10, with numbers ending in5 rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias. 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, and to present unrounded figures would be to overstate the accuracy of the figures. Rounding to 10 accurately depicts the level of certainty that is held with these figures.

~ denotes suppressed values of 5 or fewer. Low numbers are suppressed, in conjunction with the rounding policy to prevent disclosure in accordance with the Data Protection Act, 1998.