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Prison Service: Ethnic Groups

Volume 461: debated on Tuesday 19 June 2007

To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice what percentage of prison officers in each prison are from an ethnic minority. (142711)

Information on the percentage of officer grade staff recorded as Black and Minority Ethnic expressed as the percentage of officers who have declared their ethnicity is shown in the following tables.

Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) officers as a percentage of officers who have declared their ethnicity in public sector prisons as at 31 May 2007

Establishment

BME (percentage)

Acklington

0.9

Albany

1.9

Ashwell

2.8

Askham Grange

5.7

Aylesbury

9.2

Bedford

7.4

Belmarsh

9.1

Birmingham

13.2

Blakenhurst

5.2

Blantyre House

4.9

Blundeston

3.9

Brinsford

8.8

Bristol

2.5

Brixton

26.7

Brockhill

6.4

Buckley Hall

3.0

Bullingdon

3.6

Bullwood Hall

2.4

Camp Hill

1.2

Canterbury

1.8

Cardiff

2.5

Castington

1.4

Channings Wood

2.2

Chelmsford

5.5

Coldingley

2.9

Cookham Wood

1.1

Dartmoor

4.8

Deerbolt

0.0

Dorchester

0.0

Dover

5.6

Downview

9.3

Drake Hall

2.4

Durham

0.7

East Sutton Park

0.0

Eastwood Park

0.7

Edmunds Hill

3.0

Elmley

1.8

Erlestoke

3.4

Everthorpe

0.5

Exeter

1.7

Featherstone

3.4

Feltham

15.4

Ford

3.1

Foston Hall

3.9

Frankland

1.5

Full Sutton

0.8

Garth

0.7

Gartree

4.9

Glen Parva

4.3

Gloucester

4.0

Grendon

6.6

Guys Marsh

3.0

Haslar

5.5

Haverigg

1.6

Hewell Grange

0.0

High Down

7.9

Highpoint

1.5

Hindley

3.1

Hollesley Bay

1.9

Holloway

34.1

Holme House

0.0

Hull

3.1

Huntercombe

6.7

Kennet

0.0

Kingston

3.9

Kirkham

2.9

Kirklevington Grange

2.0

Lancaster

1.0

Lancaster Farms

2.9

Latchmere House

7.7

Leeds

5.3

Leicester

5.7

Lewes

4.9

Leyhill

2.4

Lincoln

1.8

Lindholme

1.9

Littlehey

4.2

Liverpool

0.2

Long Lartin

1.8

Low Newton

0.6

Maidstone

3.8

Manchester

2.1

Moorland

4.2

Morton Hall

2.5

New Hall

4.9

North Sea Camp

0.0

Northallerton

3.0

Norwich

5.2

Nottingham

4.0

Onley

3.0

Parkhurst

2.5

Pentonville

24.7

Portland

3.0

Preston

2.5

Ranby

2.7

Reading

8.0

Risley

0.7

Rochester

6.3

Send

4.8

Sheppey Reducing Reoffending

2.9

Shepton Mallet

1.5

Shrewsbury

3.4

Stafford

2.9

Standford Hill

4.2

Stocken

3.6

Stoke Heath

3.8

Styal

4.7

Sudbury

4.3

Swaleside

2.3

Swansea

0.6

Swinfen Hall

4.1

The Mount

9.9

The Verne

0.9

Thorn Cross

1.6

Usk/Prescoed

2.0

Wakefield

1.8

Wandsworth

19.9

Warren Hill

3.3

Wayland

1.8

Wealstun

1.9

Wellingborough

4.4

Werrington

3.6

Wetherby

4.4

Whatton

5.1

Whitemoor

3.2

Winchester

0.5

Woodhill

2.7

Wormwood Scrubs

23.3

Wymott

2.1

HQ

14.3

Public Sector Prison Service

5.0

Note:For public sector prisons, officer grade is all prison officers, senior officers and principal officers.

Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) officers as percentage of officers who have declared their ethnicity in private prisons as at 31 March 2007

Establishment

BME (percentage)

Ashfield

1.1

Doncaster

1.1

Dovegate

3.1

Lowdham Grange

2.2

Note: For private prisons, officer grade is prison custody officer. It was not possible to obtain information about the remaining private prisons in England and Wales in the time available to answer this question.