Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications there were to the PQiP scheme for each recruitment drive since the inception of that scheme; and how many prison officer vacancies there were in each 12 month period over the last 10 years.

More than 1,500 new trainee probation officers have been hired this year - hitting the government’s target while helping to cut crime, make streets safer and protect the public.

Table 1: Number of applications to the PQiP scheme.

Table 1 notes:

1. Data prior to PQiP 8 is not available on the Oleeo recruitment system that we have access to as recruitment was carried out by a third party.

Prison Officer vacancy figures for the past 10 years are not available as we do not have a fixed staffing requirement for each individual prison establishment.