Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an estimate of the number of probation officers required to support prisoners granted early release.

We have increased funding for the Probation Service by an extra £155 million a year and onboarded over 4,000 trainee probation officers over the last three years.

As announced on 11 March, we will reset probation so that practitioners prioritise early engagement at the point where offenders are most likely to breach their licence conditions, allowing frontline staff to maximise supervision of the most serious offenders.