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<p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of full time equivalent Band 3 staff employed in each
establishment of the Public Sector Prison Service of England and Wales, as at 31 December
2013, is published in the National Offender Management Service workforce statistics
at;</p><p> </p><p><a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-offender-management-service-workforce-statistics"
href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-offender-management-service-workforce-statistics"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-offender-management-service-workforce-statistics</a></p><p>
</p><p>Staffing figures are published on a quarterly basis, and figures for 31 December
2013 are the most recently published figures. Figures as at 31 March 2014 will be
published on the 29 May 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Although vacancy numbers are reported
to the centre, workforce planning is managed locally by prisons. There are a number
of complexities around the reporting of vacancies, in particular variations to staffing
levels arising from changes in prison function/role, changes to prison capacity and
changes resulting from the prison benchmarking/efficiency programme. Given these complexities
it is not possible to provide an accurate prison by prison breakdown.</p><p> </p><p>A
new workforce reporting tool is being implemented from April 2014 which will improve
the consistency of reporting at prison level.</p>
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