Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the answer of 11 June 2026 to Question 7174, how many employees in HMPPS under the Occupational Psychologist profession are i) psychology administrators and ii) groupworkers.

HM Prison & Probation Service currently employs 69 psychology administrators, including 11 sandwich student placements, and 384 groupworkers.

These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.

For the purpose of the annual Civil Service employment statistics, both groups are currently categorised under the Government’s ‘Occupational Psychologist’ profession.