Prison Officers: Recruitment
(asked on 14th June 2018) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many prison officers have been recruited for England and Wales by the Ministry of Justice since October 2016.
This question was answered on 26th June 2018
Between 1 November 2016 and 31 March 2018, 6,268 band 3-5 prison officers joined Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service.
The latest set of workforce statistics covering the period to 31 March 2018 is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/her-majestys-prison-and-probation-service-workforce-quarterly-march-2018.