Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff left his Department in each year since 2015.

The table below shows the headcount of leavers in the 12 month period to 31 December for each year since 2015.

Headcount of leavers for MOJ (including HMPPS) in the 12 months to 31 December, from 2015 to 2023

Includes MOJ HQ, HMPPS, HMCTS, OPG, LAA, and CICA

Notes

1. Includes leavers from MoJ HQ, HMPPS, HMCTS, LAA, OPG, and CICA.

2. Internal transfers between HMPPS and the other MoJ agencies, and vice versa, will be included in these figures but all other internal transfers are excluded.

3. Number of leavers will be proportional to the size of the overall business, and therefore these figures should be considered within this context.

4. A number of calendar years within this period will have been affected by COVID-19.