Question follow-through · 76288
Prisons: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to (a) train and (b) recruit staff in the prison workforce.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 10 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 19 Sept 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to (a) train and (b) recruit staff in the prison workforce.
15 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Sept 2025
Answer published
We know that sufficient and skilled frontline staffing is fundamental to delivering safe, secure, and rehabilitative prisons. We remain committed to ensuring prisons are sufficiently resourced and that we retain and build levels of experience.HMPPS believ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Legal Aid Scheme: Norwich South
14 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of face-to-face civil legal aid provision for the residents of Norwich South constituency; when the provision was last reviewed; and what steps his Departme