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<p>Between 1 May 2010 and 30 September 2015 60 prison officers left the prison service,
received severance payments and have subsequently re-joined the National Offender
Management Service as prison officers.</p><p> </p><p>Over the last Parliament, NOMS
delivered £334m prison efficiency savings and £169m savings in prison capacity management
through prison closures and the introduction of benchmarking.</p><p> </p><p>Voluntary
exit was used in the last Parliament as a result of the closure of uneconomic prison
places. These prison closures and benchmarking reforms have delivered savings of £300
million a year, with the average cost per prison place falling in real terms by 19%
since 2009/10.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This figure is rounded to the nearest 10, with
numbers ending in 5 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.</p><p><strong><br></strong></p>
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