Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) staff in total and (b) full-time equivalent staff were employed in the headquarters of (a) HMPPS and NOMS and (b) area services in each year since 2010.

The number of staff in post in HMPPS HQ and Area Services each year since 2010 can be found below in table 1 (headcount) and table 2 (full time equivalent).

Table 1: HMPPS HQ and Area Services staff in post¹, by financial year as at 31 March 2010 to 31 March 2021 and 31 December 2021 (Headcount)

Table 2: HMPPS HQ and Area Services staff in post¹, by financial year as at 31 March 2010 to 31 March 2021 and 31 December 2021 (full time equivalent)

1. As with all HR databases, extracts are taken at a fixed point in time, to ensure consistency of reporting. However the database itself is dynamic and where updates to the database are made late, subsequent to the taking of the extract, these updates will not be reflected in figures produced by the extract. For this reason, HR data are unlikely to be precisely accurate.
2. In June 2010 approximately 1,500 NOMS HQ staff transferred to the central Ministry of Justice.
3. In April 2017 certain corporate functions were moved out of HMPPS HQ and Area services to the central Ministry of Justice under functional leadership changes.