Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) staff in total and (b) full-time equivalent civil service staff were employed to manage prison officer numbers in each year since 2010; and how many of those staff were (a) SCS4, (b) SCS3, (c) SCS2, (d) SCS1, (e) grade 6, (f) grade 7, (g) SEO, (h) HEO, (i) EO and (j) AA.

In the last 12 years there have been a number of different teams managing Prison Officer Recruitment. Due to these changes to the teams, and how the data is recorded, it would be deemed a disproportionate cost to undertake the manual data collection required to answer this PQ.