Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what reviews his Department has commissioned on the longevity of prison officers once they have retired from service in the last five years.

The Government Actuary Department have advised that from the data they hold in respect of Civil Service Pensions they are unable to determine for how long on average a retired prison officer draws their pension and seeking to manipulate the data in this way would incur disproportionate cost.

The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) has not commissioned any reviews in the last five years on the longevity of prison officers once they have retired from service.