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Prison Service: Sick Leave

Volume 461: debated on Tuesday 19 June 2007

To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice what the average amount of sick leave taken by prison officers in each prison was in each of the last five years. (142710)

Information on the average number of working days taken as sick leave by officer grade staff in each prison establishment over the past five years is shown in the following table.

Working days lost to sickness absence by officer grade staff by establishment public sector prisons—financial years 2002-03 to 2006-07

Working days lost per officer per year

Establishment

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

Acklington

14.2

12.8

11.6

12.1

15.0

Albany

13.2

11.6

9.3

7.5

10.6

Ashwell

15.2

11.5

10.4

7.4

8.4

Askham Grange

19.4

6.9

8.5

10.0

4.9

Aylesbury

19.5

14.9

17.0

12.4

11.5

Bedford

19.9

8.0

11.6

10.2

8.0

Belmarsh

22.9

14.2

13.6

14.9

11.8

Birmingham

13.9

10.8

11.8

13.5

11.9

Blakenhurst

17.8

15.3

15.4

10.5

10.5

Blantyre House

8.2

10.0

8.6

5.9

7.5

Blundeston

14.0

22.0

15.7

16.8

9.0

Brinsford

11.8

13.8

13.8

14.9

9.7

Bristol

15.5

16.7

16.6

21.0

18.0

Brixton

20.8

19.4

19.5

19.4

9.1

Brockhill

27.6

20.9

20.2

23.5

22.7

Buckley Hall

22.9

21.3

15.1

14.9

14.0

Bullingdon

16.2

15.6

13.4

10.8

11.6

Bullwood Hall

6.1

12.2

10.2

10.8

9.9

Camp Hill

9.2

12.7

11.4

10.9

8.1

Canterbury

14.9

14.4

9.8

9.6

12.9

Cardiff

9.7

7.9

7.4

10.4

10.5

Castington

20.2

12.7

16.2

12.8

10.3

Channings Wood

14.3

20.9

14.8

16.9

12.5

Chelmsford

14.7

13.2

10.1

8.1

7.8

Coldingley

10.2

12.0

14.5

13.6

9.1

Cookham Wood

16.2

28.0

16.5

12.6

13.1

Dartmoor

23.5

20.4

16.3

13.5

10.9

Deerbolt

17.3

8.8

14.5

11.6

15.9

Dorchester

15.9

13.5

10.9

16.7

11.5

Dover

15.0

16.8

20.0

14.1

9.2

Downview

16.8

21.4

15.2

12.7

12.7

Drake Hall

11.4

12.2

14.9

15.4

13.2

Durham

15.8

16.8

16.1

12.9

16.0

East Sutton Park

17.2

18.9

7.0

20.2

18.7

Eastwood Park

28.4

17.6

16.9

15.4

17.4

Edmunds Hill

18.8

17.5

14.3

12.0

13.3

Elmley

13.7

16.6

16.6

11.8

10.2

Erlestoke

11.7

10.1

12.0

11.4

14.6

Everthorpe

8.2

11.0

15.4

8.9

9.2

Exeter

18.7

15.3

17.2

14.4

11.1

Featherstone

9.9

11.5

19.5

15.5

10.5

Feltham

16.7

13.9

15.1

15.3

14.6

Ford

21.7

28.8

18.8

16.9

18.9

Foston Hall

19.9

12.0

25.0

18.1

24.7

Frankland

13.6

10.7

11.3

14.7

13.3

Full Sutton

13.5

10.4

10.8

10.9

13.6

Garth

14.8

10.4

11.4

14.7

16.7

Gartree

8.7

8.8

9.8

14.1

16.1

Glen Parva

18.9

14.3

10.1

8.3

9.6

Gloucester

17.9

20.1

13.8

14.4

10.0

Grendon

21.5

14.3

14.3

15.0

11.0

Guys Marsh

21.2

20.6

16.2

17.9

16.2

Haslar

20.4

16.0

18.8

10.7

7.6

Haverigg

14.0

17.8

24.3

19.3

15.6

Hewell Grange

18.7

5.7

9.6

5.2

10.7

High Down

21.6

13.3

13.9

11.5

13.3

Highpoint

15.5

8.9

12.7

12.0

10.4

Hindley

24.8

33.2

25.9

20.2

15.5

Hollesley Bay

6.9

18.6

10.5

6.5

5.5

Holloway

28.0

20.2

15.0

11.0

10.8

Holme House

20.9

12.9

13.6

15.2

14.1

Hull

11.0

11.9

12.7

12.9

12.0

Huntercombe

16.2

19.6

17.6

17.8

17.1

Kingston

24.0

14.6

7.8

6.4

10.4

Kirkham

14.2

16.2

13.2

16.6

16.0

Kirklevington Grange

6.7

6.1

9.8

9.1

9.1

Lancaster

11.9

7.8

11.3

15.8

18.8

Lancaster Farms

13.8

15.6

18.4

13.4

17.2

Latchmere House

13.7

13.0

6.7

15.9

6.1

Leeds

19.9

14.8

14.9

15.5

14.1

Leicester

19.4

8.2

7.3

9.1

8.9

Lewes

17.4

15.7

12.1

13.6

13.7

Leyhill

13.1

12.3

12.2

14.1

13.3

Lincoln

23.1

15.3

15.8

11.1

11.9

Lindholme

13.9

12.1

15.2

14.4

14.2

Littlehey

16.2

12.7

15.9

8.7

10.6

Liverpool

23.0

23.2

22.2

10.7

13.0

Long Lartin

10.6

13.9

11.2

9.2

11.1

Low Newton

12.1

13.0

13.5

12.9

12.3

Maidstone

19.5

22.7

17.0

16.8

14.4

Manchester

20.8

17.3

11.3

11.1

10.9

Moorland

12.2

10.3

11.4

12.3

15.3

Morton Hall

13.7

18.7

14.3

9.7

11.5

New Hall

17.5

19.0

20.2

21.4

19.5

North Sea Camp

14.2

11.8

9.5

25.1

13.8

Northallerton

20.6

22.1

30.8

16.0

12.3

Norwich

19.9

10.0

8.9

12.9

15.3

Nottingham

13.4

13.0

16.0

14.5

12.4

Onley

21.3

12.4

22.3

25.0

10.3

Parkhurst

19.2

13.3

15.6

10.3

11.2

Pentonville

18.7

15.9

17.3

14.5

12.1

Portland

21.5

19.0

26.3

18.7

13.7

Preston

19.6

22.7

11.4

10.1

9.5

Ranby

18.3

13.8

7.1

10.5

12.7

Reading

16.3

15.5

11.3

15.3

10.9

Risley

29.7

22.4

18.0

22.9

20.4

Rochester

27.9

24.3

18.2

14.0

11.1

Send

13.5

15.9

12.6

10.5

11.8

Shepton Mallet

13.8

13.6

12.8

10.9

9.9

Shrewsbury

17.6

15.2

7.4

9.4

13.1

Stafford

19.9

17.1

13.3

13.8

13.5

Standford Hill

17.0

16.3

10.7

13.6

15.8

Stocken

8.2

11.1

14.5

15.7

12.3

Stoke Heath

23.2

20.1

18.7

18.0

22.8

Styal

15.9

16.8

11.4

15.1

15.0

Sudbury

10.9

11.9

10.0

10.1

8.5

Swaleside

13.7

13.0

10.0

12.1

7.0

Swansea

12.9

10.5

9.9

13.8

12.2

Swinfen Hall

9.9

8.1

9.5

11.0

10.5

The Mount

14.6

15.7

8.1

8.7

5.9

The Verne

9.4

10.9

12.4

12.6

11.3

Thorn Cross

22.3

19.9

18.0

16.5

12.5

Usk/Prescoed

11.0

5.4

2.6

8.5

13.1

Wakefield

14.0

15.0

14.5

11.7

12.9

Wandsworth

21.1

19.9

14.4

13.1

12.9

Warren Hill

72.1

12.9

10.6

11.5

11.1

Wayland

8.2

10.5

9.4

5.9

7.9

Wealstun

9.8

8.3

11.5

14.4

13.4

Weare

16.6

22.6

15.5

2.9

Closed

Wellingborough

18.0

14.6

17.0

21.1

15.8

Werrington

19.3

16.5

12.2

17.6

18.8

Wetherby

18.1

17.7

17.4

14.5

12.4

Whatton

11.1

9.7

9.2

11.0

7.7

Whitemoor

18.7

16.5

15.6

16.4

14.2

Winchester

16.2

20.5

18.6

12.2

12.0

Woodhill

19.0

15.3

14.3

17.0

13.1

Wormwood Scrubs

22.8

23.2

12.3

11.5

13.0

Wymott

15.3

15.0

18.5

18.1

16.1

HQ

9.4

7.5

5.6

6.3

7.0

Public sector Prison Service

17.1

15.2

14.1

13.5

12.8

Note:

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

Working days lost to sickness absence by officer grade staff by establishment private prisons—calendar years 2002 to 2006

Working days lost per officer per year

Establishment

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

Doncaster

8

9.5

11

11.5

6

Dovegate

16.6

16.4

16.5

16.2

13.5

Lowdham Grange

5

9

15

14

10

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.