Question follow-through · 59632
Prison Officers: Retirement
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has plans to lower the prison officer retirement age.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 12 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 20 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Justice and policing
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
12 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has plans to lower the prison officer retirement age.
16 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Jun 2025
Answer published
Prison officers are members of the Civil Service Pension scheme (CSPS), and the normal pension age (at which unreduced benefits can be taken) is linked to their state pension age. We recognise the unique and challenging role that prison officers play in p...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Courts
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Prisoner Escorts
11 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to reduce delays in the escorting of defendants to Court which can result in a trial being (a) deferred or (b) cancelled.
Prison Officers: Labour Turnover and Recruitment
11 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to increase (a) recruitment and (b) retention of prison officers.
Prisoners: Rehabilitation
11 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the efficacy of the offending behaviour (a) programmes and (b) interventions offered in prisons.
Prisoners on Remand: Rehabilitation
11 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will extend intervention programmes aimed at preventing reoffending to people held in prisons on remand, pre-sentencing.
Prisons: Unmanned Air Systems
11 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to tackle the problem of illegal deliveries of (a) phones, (b) drugs and (c) other contraband items into prisons via drones.
Prisons: Staff
11 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to improve the welfare of staff working in the prisons system.
Young Offenders: Vetting
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to reform the rules governing the disclosure of childhood criminal records by the Disclosure and Barring Service so that future opportunities are not impacted.
Dispute Resolution
2 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what consideration his Department has given to the potential merits of establishing a single statutory supervisory body for voluntary ombudsman and ADR schemes.