Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many members of staff have been employed in each prison operated by (a) HM Prison Service and (b) each private prison operator in each year since 2010.

The government has committed to recruit a net increase of 2500 prison officers across public sector prisons by December 2018. In addition to the recruitment activity to fill these 2500 new posts, there is ongoing recruitment activity to fill current vacancies, and vacancies which arise.

Information on the number of full time equivalent staff employed within public sector prisons and privately operated prisons can be found in the accompanying excel workbook.