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Prison Officers: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of prison officer salaries given the levels of (a) risk and (b) stress of this role.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
4 Feb 2025
Target answer date
10 Feb 2025
Answer
10 Feb 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of prison officer salaries given the levels of (a) risk and (b) stress of this role.

  2. 10 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 10 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    Prison Service staff are some of our finest public servants. Despite their hard work, the Prison Service has been under immense pressure due to an increasing population and ageing estate.One of the first things this Government did upon coming into office ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Probation Officers: Pay

11 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of probation officer salary levels on staff retention rates.

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Probation Officers: Pay

11 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of probation officer salaries in the context of the (a) workload and (b) level of stress associated with this role.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Probation Officers: Pay

11 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the level of pay rise that would be required for probation officers for their salaries to be at the same real-terms level they were in 2010.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prisons: Education

13 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will list the providers that have entered into Prison Education Service contracts in the last 12 months.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prisons: Education

27 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions she has had with bidders for prison education contracts on the New Fair Deal for pensions.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prison Officers: Length of Service

7 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the cumulative number of years of experience held by prison officers in each year since 2010.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Probation Officers

7 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the cumulative number of years of experience held by probation officers in each year since 2021.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Probation Officers: Sick Leave

7 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents of (a) attrition, (b) sickness absence and (c) work-related stress there were for probation officers in each region in the most recent period for which data is available.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Probation

7 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the capacity of accredited probation programmes is in each region.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Probation Officers: Overtime

7 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of the amount of time off in lieu that was accrued by probation officers in each year since 2021; and how much and what proportion of this time was (a) taken and (b) rolled over.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prisoners' Release: Buprenorphine

14 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will hold discussions with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the availability of Buvidal for people released from prison.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prisoners' Release: Buprenorphine

14 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the potential merits of ringfencing funding for Buvidal for people released from prison.