Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases on average a probation officer should be handling.

The Probation Service Target Operating Model does not indicate an expected caseload for Probation Officers or Probation Service Officers. A recent (March, 2021) HMIP report on caseloads identifies that a “precise target number for caseload cannot be set as there are too many inter-connected variables” (HMIP, 2021, pp4).