Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of Community Payback supervisors employed in each year since 2010.

The new unified Probation Service launched in England and Wales in 2021. The Probation Service now has responsibility for unpaid work delivery, which had previously been the responsibility of Community Rehabilitation Companies, as such we do not have staffing data before 2022.

Table One: Staff in Post (Headcount and FTE) for HMPPS staff with the job title 'Community Payback Supervisor'