Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the cost of all voluntary redundancies made in the probation service since the establishment of the Community Rehabilitation Company.

The National Agreement on Staff Transfer and Protections includes an enhanced national voluntary redundancy scheme which applies up to and including 31 March 2016. Decisions including agreement on applications for voluntary redundancy have to be made and agreed by 31 March 2015. The costs of all exits under this scheme will be met from the Department’s Modernisation Fund, which is used to support sustainable reductions in resource requirements.

Figures relating to the numbers of redundancies will in due course be published in the NOMS Annual Report and Accounts.