Prison unit costs cover the direct and overall cost of prison places and prisoner population. This publication covers 2019 to 2020.

The bulletin is released by the Ministry of Justice and produced in accordance with arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

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Prison unit cost statistics is produced and handled by the Ministry of Justice’s (MOJ) accounting professionals and production staff. Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons:

Ministry of Justice

Minister’s Office:

• Minister of State with responsibility for Prisons and Probation
• Private Secretary
• Deputy Private Secretary (Prisons Desk)
• Deputy Principal Private Secretary (Prisons & Probation Desk)

Permanent Secretary’s Office:

• Permanent Secretary

Financial Officer Group:

• Chief Financial Officer
• Finance Director, Financial Management & Control Directorate
• Finance Director, Business Partnering
• Director of Financial Strategy, Planning & Performance
• Deputy Director, Management Accounting & Future Finance Programme
• Deputy Director, Tax Centre of Excellence
• Deputy Director, Financial Change & Planning
• Head of HMPPS Management Accounting
• Head of Finance Business Partnering for Prisons
• Lead Finance Business Partner: Public Sector Prisons
• Finance Business Partner, Head of Contracted Services
• Deputy Director, Financial Reporting, Transactions & Governance
• Head of Consolidated Accounts and HMPPS Financial Accounts
• Head of HMPPS Financial Accounts
• Head of Governance- HMPPS
• Senior Management Accounts Team Leaders x 2
• Strategic Accounting Manager
• Business Intelligence Manager

Data & Analytical Services Directorate:

• Deputy Director, Data & Analytical Services Directorate, Prison & Probation Operational Analysis
• Head of Operational Analysis
• Head of Prison Safety & Security Analysis Team

External Communications:

• Press Officers (x2)

HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS)

• Chief Executive Officer
• Senior Business Manager to the HMPPS CEO

Latest figures for the quarter April to June 2021 are provided and compared to the same period in 2020. This is with the exception of the prison population where more recent data are available (30 September 2021).

It covers flows into these services (receptions into prison or probation starts) and flows out (releases from prison or probation terminations) as well as the caseload of these services at specific points in time.

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Offender Management Statistics are produced and handled by the Ministry of Justice’s (MOJ) analytical professionals and production staff. Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons:

Ministry of Justice

Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State, Minister for Prisons, Minister for Youth Justice, Special Advisors (SpAds), Permanent secretaries, Relevant private secretaries (x9), Director General, Chief Financial Officer Group, Director of Prison Policy and Reform, Director of Data and Analysis, Deputy Director (Chief Statistician), Deputy Director, Data and Evidence as a Service (DES): DPRH, Deputy Director, Head of Bail, Sentencing and Release, Analytical officers (x12), Policy officers (x8), Press officers (x10).

HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS)

Deputy Director, Head of Public Protection Group (PPG), Head of Post-release Casework Section; Analytical officers (x1), Policy officers (x2)

Home Office

Secretary of State, Private secretary (x1)

The HMPPS workforce bulletin provides statistics on staffing levels and staff inflows and outflows in England and Wales. This publication updates statistics on HMPPS staffing levels up to the end of December 2021.

The prison officer and operational support grade (OSGs) recruitment diversity annex provides diversity statistics (ethnicity, disability and gender) at each stage of the recruitment process for Prison Officers and OSGs.

The probation officer recruitment annex provides the difference between required and current staffing levels of Probation Officers, and the number of Trainee Probation Officers and other qualified staff.

This statistics release provides data on COVID-19 amongst staff in HMPPS in England and Wales – on deaths, cases and absence.

The bulletin is released by the Ministry of Justice and produced in accordance with arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

Pre-release list

HMPPS workforce bulletin is produced and handled by the Ministry of Justice’s (MOJ) analytical professionals and production staff. Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons:

Ministry of Justice

Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State; Minister of State for Justice; Parliamentary Under Secretary of State; Permanent Secretary; Director, Prison Reform Policy; Director General, Justice Analysis & Offender Policy; Director of Prison Safety & Reform Programme; Director of Analytical Services; Chief Statistician and Deputy Director Justice Statistics Analytical Services; Deputy Director, Head of Data Science & HR Analytical Services; Head of HR Analysis, Reporting and Modelling; Deputy Director, Prison Reform Policy; Deputy Director, Prison and Probation Analytical Services; Deputy Director - Human Resources, Head of Data and Insight; Director of Communications; Prison Officer Recruitment – Head of Data and Insight; Press officers (x9); Private secretaries (x8); Special advisors (x2)

HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS)

Chief Executive Officer; Head of CEO’s Office; Head of Executive Management Team; HR Director; Head of HR Reform; Deputy Director of HR Prisons; Deputy Director of HR Probation; Deputy Director of Recruitment and Retention.

The report is released by the Ministry of Justice and produced in accordance with arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority. For further information about the Justice Data Lab, please refer to the following guidance.

Key findings this quarter

Two reports are being published this quarter: Prisoners Education Trust (4th analysis) and Resolve accredited programme.

Note: Following the publication of the original impact evaluation for the Resolve accredited programme detailed below, a supplementary appendix including additional analysis and descriptive statistics was published in Justice Data Lab statistics: October 2021.

Prisoners’ Education Trust (4th analysis)

Prisoners’ Education Trust (PET) funds prisoners to study courses via distance learning in subjects and at levels that are not generally available through mainstream education.

This analysis looked at the employment outcomes and reoffending behaviour of 9,041 adults who received grants for distance learning through Prisoners’ Education Trust (PET) schemes between 2001 and 2017. This analysis is a follow up of previous PET analyses which looked at the reoffending behaviour and employment outcomes of a smaller group of people.

The overall results show that those who received PET grants were less likely to reoffend in the year after their release from prison and more likely to be employed, compared with a group of similar offenders who did not receive these grants.

Resolve accredited programme

Resolve is a moderate intensity accredited programme designed and delivered by HMPPS. The prison-based programme is a cognitive-behavioural therapy-informed offending behaviour programme, which aims to improve outcomes related to violence in adult males who are of a medium risk of reoffending.

The analysis looked at the reoffending behaviour of 2,509 adult males who participated in the Resolve custody programme at some point between 2011 and 2018 and who were released from prison between 2011 and 2018. It covers one and two-year general and violent reoffending measures.

The headline results for one-year proven general reoffending (includes all reoffending) show that those who took part in the programme in England and Wales were less likely to reoffend, reoffended less frequently and took longer to reoffend than those how did not take part. The headline results for two-year proven general reoffending show that those who took part were less likely to reoffend, reoffended less frequently and took longer to reoffend that those how did not take part. These results were statistically significant.

For proven violent reoffences (a subset of general reoffending), the headline one and two-year results did not show that the programme had a statistically significant effect on a person’s reoffending behaviour, but this should not be taken to mean it fails to have an effect.

Further analyses were also conducted to examine the specific effects of Resolve on relevant sub-groups for proven general reoffending and violent reoffending. Among the one-year violent sub-analyses, those who only participated in Resolve were significantly less likely to reoffend violently and reoffended violently less frequently than those who did not take part. There were no statistically significant sub-analyses for the two-year violent measures.

Justice Data Lab service: available reoffending data

Organisation can submit information on the individuals they were working with between 2002 and the end of March 2018. The bulletin is produced and handled by the Ministry’s analytical professionals and production staff. Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons: Ministry of Justice Secretary of State, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State - Minister for Prisons and Probation, Permanent Secretary, Director General of Policy and Strategy Group, Director General for Prisons, Director General for Probation, Chief Financial Officer, Head of News, 2 Chief Press Officers, 11 policy and analytical advisers for reducing reoffending and rehabilitation policy, special advisors, 4 press officers, and 6 private secretaries.

The HMPPS annual Staff Equalities Report considers profiles and processes of the HMPPS workforce from an equalities perspective. Data is for England and Wales. This publication updates statistics on HMPPS staffing issues up to the end of March 2022.

The bulletin is released by the Ministry of Justice and produced in accordance with arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

Pre-release list

HMPPS workforce bulletin is produced and handled by the Ministry of Justice’s (MOJ) analytical professionals and production staff. Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons:

Ministry of Justice

Lord Chancellor & Secretary of State for Justice; Minister of State for Justice (x2), Permanent Secretaries (x2); Finance Strategy & Planning (x1); Deputy Director Workforce Experience & People Insight; Director HR Operations; Deputy Director, MoJ Resourcing, Selection & Onboarding; Policy Lead, Prison Workforce Policy; Policy Lead, Probation Workforce Programme, Capacity & Efficiency Team; Group Head of Resourcing Policy & Expert Services; Head of Briefing & Governance, Youth Custody Service; Director of Communications; Press officers (x3); Private secretaries (x4); Special advisors (x2); Head of Access to Justice Statistics; Interim Director of Analysis, Data & Analysis; Deputy Director & Chief Statistician, Data & Evidence as a Service; Workforce Statistics & Analysis (x5); Head of Strategic Workforce & Pay Modelling; Head of HMPPS Paybill & Workforce Modelling

HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS)

Director General of Operations for Prisons & Probation; Head of Office for the Director General, Chief Operating Officer & Deputy Director of Prisons

The Annual Prison Performance Ratings are published to ensure transparency of the final performance assessments of both public sector and privately-managed prisons across England and Wales.

Due to the impact of COVID-19 on prison delivery during the year and impact on data reliability, a data-informed, rather than data-driven, assessment took place in 2021/22 to identify the rating for each prison. A two-tier rating system is used for 2021/22 performance ratings, where prisons have been rated as either having:

• Performance is at least acceptable in the circumstances of COVID-19
• Performance is of concern in the circumstances of COVID-19

This publication covers reporting for the period between the 1 April 2021 and the 31 March 2022.

Pre-release access:

The Annual Prison Performance Ratings publication is produced and handled by the Ministry of Justice’s (MOJ) analytical professionals and production staff. Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons:

Ministry of Justice:

Secretary of State and Lord Chancellor; Permanent Secretary; Director General of Probation; Chief Probation Officer; Chief Financial Officer; Minister of State, Prisons and Probation; Deputy Private Secretary; Principal Private Secretary; Deputy Principal Private Secretary, Head of Prisons and Probation Desk; Private Secretary; Deputy Private Secretary; Head of Office; Deputy Director, Office of Director General for Probation; Programme Director, Probation Programme; Deputy Director, Probation Programme; Chief Executive, New Futures Network; Head of Performance Intelligence Function; Deputy Director, Effective Practice and Service Improvement; Head of Policy and Briefing; Directorate of Reducing Reoffending, Partnerships and Accommodation; Deputy Director Rehabilitation Policy; Press Officer (x14); Head of Data and Insight, New Futures Network; Probation Reform Programme - Policy and Briefing; Acting Deputy Director, Office of the Director General for Probation, Wales and Youth; Communications Manager – Community Accommodation Service (CAS); CAS Project Support Officer; Chief Operating Officer, New Futures Network; Head of Profession; Head of HMPPS Performance; Deputy Director of Data and Evidence as a Service; Director of Data and Analysis; Performance Analyst (x7); Operational Researcher; Business Intelligence Support Analyst; Principle Social Researcher, Criminal Justice Analytical Priority Projects; Head of Criminal Justice Analytical Priority Projects; Principal Research Officer, Reducing Reoffending (x2); Head of Reducing Reoffending Business Partnering Team; Director of Prison Policy; Director General of Policy; Head of Prison Performance; Prison Performance Analyst (x3).

HM Prison and Probation Service:

Chief Executive Officer of HMPPS; Executive Director - Strategy Planning and Performance; Director General of Prisons; DG and COO Prisons; Chief Operating Officer of Prisons; Executive Director - Prisons South; Executive Director - Prisons North; Executive Director - Long Term High Secure Estate; Executive Director - HMPPS Wales; Executive Director - Privately Managed Prisons; Executive Director - Youth Custody Service; Deputy Director - Effective Practice and Service Improvement Group; Head of Performance Improvement; Head of Performance Intelligence; Head of Information - Youth Custody Service.