Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on average how many years experience senior probation officers have prior to their appointment.

Based on existing data and bearing in mind the creation of the National Probation Service (NPS) on 1^st June 2014; the average length of service for Senior Probation Officers prior to promotion to the Senior Probation Officers grade in HM Prison and Probation Service in the year 2020/21 was 6.3 years. However, given the data limitations mentioned above this is an under estimation as it does not take into account experience staff gained working in Probation Trusts before NPS was formed.