Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation’s report, Caseloads, workloads and staffing levels in probation Services, published in March 2021, what steps he is taking to enable accurate and relevant measurement of probation staff workloads after the reintegration of community rehabilitation companies into the national probation service.

Our future model for the probation system is based on enabling our staff to deliver all elements of their role to protect the public and to help people live law abiding lives.

We have developed a revised Workload Measurement Tool (WMT) to support Senior Probation Officers to monitor the capacity of their teams. From the point of unification in June the WMT will include CRC caseloads and staff.

All staff will deal with work and caseloads that have a range of complexity, matched to their level of training and expertise.