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Written Question
Probation: Staff
Thursday 23rd May 2024

Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many qualified probation officers were in post at the end of March in each year since 2020.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

Staffing levels across HMPPS are publicly available in the “HM Prison and Probation Service workforce quarterly” Official Statistics release, published at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-offender-management-service-workforce-statistics.

Information on the number of staff by grade is available in Table 3 of the accompanying data tables, which can be found at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6644d719ae748c43d3793c71/hmpps-workforce-statistics-tables-mar-2024_final.ods.

As of 31 March 2024, there were 5,139 full-time equivalent (FTE) Probation Officers in post. This is an increase of 718 FTE since 31 March 2023.


Select Committee
Obesity Health Alliance
FDO0058 - Food, Diet and Obesity

Written Evidence May. 22 2024

Inquiry: Food, Diet and Obesity
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Food, Diet and Obesity Committee

Found: third major barrier to action is that there is not uniform support for interventions from planning officers


Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Home Office

May. 22 2024

Source Page: Immigration Rules archive: 11 April 2024 to 15 May 2024
Document: (PDF)

Found: 1163 Senior officers in fire, ambulance, prison and related services • Chief immigration officer


Departmental Publication (Policy paper)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

May. 22 2024

Source Page: Lord Pickles Alderney expert review
Document: (PDF)

Found: Intelligence officers identified the atrocities inflicted on these people in Alderney as a war crime


Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Ministry of Justice

May. 22 2024

Source Page: HMP Lowdham Grange contract to transition to public sector control
Document: HMP Lowdham Grange contract to transition to public sector control (webpage)

Found: Sodexo are currently the contracted operator of the prison, although His Majesty’s Prison and Probation


Lords Chamber
Arrests and Prison Capacity - Wed 22 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None am delighted to have the opportunity to talk about public safety, about the record number of police officers - Speech Link
2: None as criminal justice lead for the National Police Chiefs’ Council, in which he referred to short-term prison - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Police chiefs have been very clear today that officers will arrest anyone they need to in order to keep - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) That is causing damaging impacts on communities, prisoners’ families and prison workers, as well as on - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Arrests and Prison Capacity - Wed 22 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) am delighted to have the opportunity to talk about public safety, about the record number of police officers - Speech Link
2: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) That is why there are record numbers of police officers. - Speech Link
3: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) First, prison places have not collapsed; I think there are more prison places now than in the recent - Speech Link
4: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) have record numbers of prison places. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Crash-for-cash Insurance Fraud - Wed 22 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) made more than 3,230 arrests and secured more than 2,200 convictions, resulting in nearly 320 years of prison - Speech Link
2: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge and Malling) Member for Nottingham North recognised that we have hired thousands of new police officers over England - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Prison Media Bill
Committee stage - Wed 22 May 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Katherine Fletcher (Con - South Ribble) of the prison officers who work in the two prisons in the South Ribble constituency, HMP Garth and HMP - Speech Link
2: Katherine Fletcher (Con - South Ribble) The Bill strikes the right balance between preventing criminality, in terms of filming prison officers - Speech Link
3: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) Friend has mentioned the prison officers and people living near the prisons, but there are also people - Speech Link
4: Katherine Fletcher (Con - South Ribble) officers, custody officers in private prisons, legal visitors, inspectors, delivery drivers, building - Speech Link
5: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) , as well as bolstering prison security and the safety of prison officers across all nations in the UK.My - Speech Link


Bill Documents
22 May 2024 - Amendment Paper
Notices of Amendments as at 22 May 2024
Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24

Found: (2) The Code must set out— (a) which officers should be provided with such medications and