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	registered interest
	date	12/06/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Officers: Disciplinary Proceedings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers have been placed under investigation for (a) less than one month, (b) between one and three months, (c) between three and six months, (d) between six and 12 months and (e) over 12 months due to alleged (i) misconduct and (ii) gross misconduct in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	263821
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2019 answer text <p><strong>Table 1a - Number of Prison Officers<sup>1,2</sup> (headcount) subject to Conduct and Discipline investigations due to Misconduct, by length of investigation<sup>3</sup>, 2015/16 to 2017/18</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Less than one month</p></td><td><p>123</p></td><td><p>138</p></td><td><p>130</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Between one and three months</p></td><td><p>144</p></td><td><p>162</p></td><td><p>138</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Between three and six months</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Between six and 12 months</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Over 12 months</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1b - Number of Prison Officers<sup>1,2</sup> (headcount) subject to Conduct and Discipline investigations due to Gross Misconduct, by length of investigation<sup>3</sup>, 2015/16 to 2017/18</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Less than one month</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>between one and three months</p></td><td><p>111</p></td><td><p>103</p></td><td><p>118</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>between three and six months</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>between six and 12 months</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>over 12 months</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>1. Includes Band 3-4 / Prison Officer (incl. specialists), Band 4 / Supervising Officer and Band 5 / Custodial Managers.</p><p>2. Staff with at least one conduct and discipline case concluded during the year.</p><ol start="3"><li>Staff with no end date in the data, indicating open cases, have been excluded.</li></ol><p> </p><p>'~ denotes suppressed values of 2 or fewer or other values which would allow values of 2 or fewer to be derived by subtraction. Low numbers are suppressed to prevent disclosure in accordance with the Data Protection Act, 1998.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/06/2019 13:52:20 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1131631

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Officers: Disciplinary Proceedings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of disciplinary cases in which prison officers have been placed under investigation lasting (a) less than one month, (b) between one and three months, (c) between three and six months, (d) between six and twelve months and (e) over twelve months have progressed to (i) misconduct and (ii) gross misconduct proceedings in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	263822
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2019 answer text <p><strong>Table 1a: Proportion of Conduct and Discipline cases<sup>1</sup>, involving Prison Officers<sup>2</sup>, which progressed to misconduct proceedings, by length of investigation<sup>3</sup>, 2015/16 to 2017/18</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Less than one month</p></td><td><p>75%</p></td><td><p>71%</p></td><td><p>74%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Between one and three months</p></td><td><p>53%</p></td><td><p>58%</p></td><td><p>48%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Between three and six months</p></td><td><p>47%</p></td><td><p>60%</p></td><td><p>47%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Between six and 12 months</p></td><td><p>50%</p></td><td><p>63%</p></td><td><p>67%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Over 12 months</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1b: Proportion of Conduct and Discipline cases<sup>1</sup>, involving Prison Officers<sup>3</sup>, which progressed to gross misconduct proceedings, by length of investigation<sup>3</sup>, 2015/16 to 2017/18</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Less than one month</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td><td><p>24%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>between one and three months</p></td><td><p>45%</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td><td><p>49%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>between three and six months</p></td><td><p>43%</p></td><td><p>36%</p></td><td><p>43%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>between six and 12 months</p></td><td><p>17%</p></td><td><p>38%</p></td><td><p>33%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>over 12 months</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td><td><p>86%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>1. A case is defined as a unique combination of case and individual member of staff. Where more than one member of staff is involved in a single case these are counted separately in this table. Equally staff involved in more than one case during the year are counted multiple times.</p><p>2. Includes Band 3-4 / Prison Officer (incl. specialists), Band 4 / Supervising Officer and Band 5 / Custodial Managers.</p><p>3. Staff with no end date in the data, indicating open cases, have been excluded</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/06/2019 13:53:26 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1131633

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Officers: Misconduct
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases of alleged (a) misconduct and (b) gross misconduct by prison officers that reach proceedings have (i) not been proven, (ii) led to management advice, (iii) led to a written warning and (iv) led to dismissal in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	263824
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2019 answer text <p><strong>Table 1: Conduct &amp; discipline cases<sup>1</sup> for misconduct and gross misconduct by band 3-5 prison officers<sup>2</sup>, by outcome<sup>3</sup>, 2015/16 to 2017/18</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td>Misconduct</td><td> </td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Not been proven</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Management advice &amp; guidance</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td>29</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Written warning</p></td><td>178</td><td>202</td><td>197</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Dismissal</p></td><td>~</td><td>~</td><td>~</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Other outcomes<sup>4</sup></p></td><td>71</td><td>55</td><td>64</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td>Gross Misconduct</td><td> </td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Not been proven</p></td><td><p>12</p><p> </p></td><td>7</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Management advice &amp; guidance</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td>7</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Written warning</p></td><td>59</td><td>56</td><td>70</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Dismissal</p></td><td>72</td><td>74</td><td>80</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Other outcomes<sup>4</sup></p></td><td>28</td><td>35</td><td>52</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:</p><p>Notes:</p><p>1. A case is defined as a unique combination of case and individual member of staff. Where more than one member of staff is involved in a single case these are counted separately in this table. Equally staff involved in more than one case during the year are counted multiple times.</p><p>2. Includes Band 3-4 / Prison Officer (incl specialists), Band 4 / Supervising Officer and Band 5 / Custodial Managers.</p><p>3. Information on the outcomes of any appeal is not included.</p><p>4. Includes where cases have been withdrawn/closed or where other disciplinary action was taken, such as financial penalties, regrades/downgrades, verbal warnings.</p><p> </p><p>'~ denotes suppressed values of 2 or fewer or other values which would allow values of 2 or fewer to be derived by subtraction. Low numbers are suppressed to prevent disclosure in accordance with the Data Protection Act, 1998.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/06/2019 14:21:11 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1131634

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Officers: Misconduct
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases of alleged (a) misconduct and (b) gross misconduct by prison officers that lead to proceedings following an investigation lasting more than 12 months have (i) not been proven, (ii) led to management advice being issued, (iii) led to a written warning and (iv) led to dismissal in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	263825
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Table 1: Conduct &amp; discipline cases<sup>1</sup> for misconduct and gross misconduct by band 3-5 prison officers<sup>2</sup> which lasted more than 12 months<sup>3</sup>, by outcome<sup>4</sup>, 2015/16 to 2017/18</strong> <table><tbody><tr><td><p>Misconduct</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Not been proven</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Management advice &amp; guidance</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Written warning</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Dismissal</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Other outcomes<sup>5</sup></p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gross Misconduct</p></td><td><p>Not been proven</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Management advice &amp; guidance</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Written warning</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Dismissal</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Other outcomes<sup>5</sup></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table>Notes: 1. A case is defined as a unique combination of case and individual member of staff. Where more than one member of staff is involved in a single case these are counted separately in this table. Equally staff involved in more than one case during the year are counted multiple times. 2. Includes Band 3-4 / Prison Officer (incl. specialists), Band 4 / Supervising Officer and Band 5 / Custodial Managers. 3. Staff with no end date in the data, indicating open cases, have been excluded. 4. Information on the outcomes of any appeal is not included. 5. Includes where cases have been withdrawn/closed or where other disciplinary action was taken, such as financial penalties, regrades/downgrades, verbal warnings. '~ denotes suppressed values of 2 or fewer or other values which would allow values of 2 or fewer to be derived by subtraction. Low numbers are suppressed to prevent disclosure in accordance with the Data Protection Act, 1998.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/06/2019 14:24:49 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts