Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 88925
Prison Officers: Vacancies
Tabled: 10 November 2025
Answered: 18 November 2025
Question
Mr Andrew Snowden
Conservative — Fylde
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the vacancy rate is for prison officers; and what assessment he has made of the regional disparity in demand for prison officers.
Answer
Jake RichardsHMPPS publishes the difference between Staff in Post and Target Staffing Figures at establishment and national level in the quarterly HMPPS Workforce statistics (Table 4 of the Prison and Probation Officer Recruitment Annex: HM Prison and Probation Servic...
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