Further supplementary memorandum submitted
by HM Prison Service
You had requested additional information that
was not contained in the supplementary note sent to you at the
end of June. Your original request was to Martin Narey's Office
on 15 November and I have been asked to reply on his behalf. In
particular you asked for further information in relation to Questions
102, 105 and 122 of the transcript.
The points raised in Question 102 were covered
by the earlier reply given in answer to Question 63 and contained
in the supplementary information sent to you in June. The answer
is contained in the information given in paragraph 7 of our response
and in the table below it. We would recommend that the information
might be re-labeled accordingly.
Additional information has been provided in
this letter to answer the points raised by question 105 and this
information is set out in table form in the annex to this letter
below. The answers to the points raised in Question 122 have been
reworked and are also contained in the Annex. The pie chart has
been reworded and there is now also an additional table summarising
the data.
I hope this provides the additional information you
requested. Please contact me if there is anything further you
require.
Mr Ralph Hatton
Personnel Management Group
Prison Service Headquarters
9 December 2004
Annex
Question 105 (Mr Williams):
| Number of working days lost for 500 staff at paragraph 2.22 during 2003-04
| Number of individuals |
| 0-50 WDL | 123 |
| 50-100 WDL | 160 |
| 100-150 WDL | 137 |
| 150-200 WDL | 61 |
| 200-250 WDL | 16 |
| 250+ WDL | 3 |
| Total | 500 |
| 258 WDL (most by one individual) | 1
|
| |
The table provides a breakdown of the number of working days
lost during 2003-04 by the 500 staff referred to on page 15 of
the NAO Report. The 500 staff were chosen as the staff with most
sickness in 2002-03 and 2003-04 in at least three periods who
were not absent long-term at 30 September 2003.
The 500 staff chosen for the illustration exclude those who were
at that time on long term sick leave, it is not therefore sensible
to say which person had the longest absence. Regarding which individual
had the most sick in the period there were three who lost more
than 250 working days in the year specified and the very most
was 258 (the maximum number possible is 261).
Question 122 (Mr Bacon):
| Working days lost 2003-04 | Individuals
| % |
| 0 WDL | 17,945 | 37.3%
|
| 1-5 WDL | 15,184 | 31.5%
|
| 6-10 WDL | 4,868 | 10.1%
|
| 11-20 WDL | 3,776 | 7.8%
|
| 21-30 WDL | 1,703 | 3.5%
|
| 31-50 WDL | 1,837 | 3.8%
|
| 50-100 WDL | 1,861 | 3.9%
|
| 101+ WDL | 965 | 2.0%
|
| Grand total | 48,139 |
|
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