Offenders: Foreign Nationals

(asked on 12th March 2024) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his oral statement of 12 March 2024 on Update on foreign national offenders, prisons and probation, in what roles the 400 additional caseworkers were previously working.


Answered by
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Michael Tomlinson
This question was answered on 18th March 2024

The additional caseworkers referenced in the oral statement of Secretary of State for Justice on 12 March 2024 are Home Office staff.

The 400 additional caseworkers are external recruits and were not transferred from other roles.

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