Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average training period was for a recruit to qualify as a probation officer in each year since 2010.
Since 2016, the Professional Qualification in Probation has offered two routes to qualification: a 15-month route and a 21-month route. Learners have been split across this route on a consistent 41:59 ratio since 2016.
Prior to 2016 and from 2010 there were three entry points to the Probation Qualification Framework depending on experience and previous qualifications, the longest of which took 27 months.