Prison Officers: Recruitment
(asked on 23rd April 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
What progress his Department has made on recruiting 2,500 new prison officers.
This question was answered on 23rd April 2019
We have met our target to recruit an additional 2,500 prison officers ahead of schedule; at the end of December 2018 we had a net increase of 4,767 FTE Band 3 to 5 prison officers since we began at the end of October 2016.
It is the highest number of officers in post since 31 March 2012.