Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 15126

Prisons: Staff

Tabled: 1 July 2026

Answered: 14 July 2026

Question

Sarah Pochin

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of staffing levels across the prison estate.

Answer

Jake Richards

We know that sufficient and skilled frontline staffing is fundamental to delivering safe, secure and rehabilitative prison regimes. The number of band 3-5 prison officers in post against Target Staffing Levels (the number of staff required to run an optim...

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