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Police: Wales

Volume 467: debated on Monday 12 November 2007

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Mrs. Gillan

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prison officers in each of the Welsh prison establishments (a) retired on ill health grounds, (b) took early retirement and (c) were dismissed from the Prison Service in each year since 1997. (162847)

Mr. Hanson

Information on officer-grade staff leaving Welsh prisons is shown in the following table. Information is only available from 1998.

Prison officers, senior officers and principal officers leaving from Welsh prisons—1998 to 2007

Establishment

Reason

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

Cardiff

Medical retirement

3

1

2

3

2

2

1

2

1

—

Early retirement

1—

1—

1—

1—

—

—

2

1

—

—

Dismissals

—

—

1

1

3

—

—

—

1

—

Swansea

Medical retirement

2

3

1

1

1

2

—

—

1

—

Early retirement

1—

1—

1—

1—

—

—

—

—

—

—

Dismissals

—

—

1

—

1

—

—

—

—

—

Usk/Prescoed

Medical retirement

1

2

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

Early retirement

1—

1—

1—

1—

—

—

—

—

—

—

Dismissals

—

—

—

—

—

1

—

—

—

—

Parc

Medical retirement

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

Early retirement

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

Dismissals

2

6

5

2

2

1

1

9

6

8

Total

—

8

12

10

7

9

6

4

12

9

8

1 Age at retirement was not recorded prior to 2002.