§ Norman BakerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for what reason private prisons are not required to submit(a) sickness and (b) minority ethnic staff data. [28637]
§ Beverley Hughes[holding answer 22 January 2002]: Her Majesty's Prison Service collects data on sickness levels and ethnic identity on its own employees. These details are not collected in respect of staff employed at private sector prisons as a matter of course because personnel issues are the concern of the contractors and such information is therefore not contractually required. The information is however, made available on request.