Question follow-through · 47480
Custodial Treatment: Unpaid Work
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many unpaid work (a) staff and (b) supervisors have been employed in each of the last 10 financial years.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 23 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 1 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many unpaid work (a) staff and (b) supervisors have been employed in each of the last 10 financial years.
25 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 May 2025
Answer published
The number of unpaid work (a) staff and (b) supervisors that have been employed in each of the last 10 financial years can be seen in the below table:Table 1 - Number of unpaid work staff in post on 31 March 2022 to 2024 and 31 December 2024 (Full Time Eq...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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