Prison Officers: Vacancies
Commons · Question 88925 · Tabled 10 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 18 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Andrew Snowden
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
Answered by Jake Richards, 18 Nov 2025
HMPPS 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...