Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Written Statement of 13 July 2023 entitled Justice system update, HCWS941, what estimate he has made of the (a) number of and (b) cost to the public purse of closed-grade prison officers leaving employment since 1 April 2023.

From 1 April to 30 June 2023, 94 closed-grade prison officers left the prison service. The Department does not make a specific assessment of the cost to the public purse of closed-grade prison officers leaving the prison service.