Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the annual cost was to train a new probation officer in each year since 2010.

Training costs are variable depending on a number of factors, not limited to; the qualification route the trainee is on, the salary of the trainee, the salary of individual’s supporting the trainee. We would not be able to provide an average annual cost as the information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost and would contain commercially sensitive information relating to partner suppliers at a time when we are tendering the current contracts.