Prison Officers: Recruitment
(asked on 6th September 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 30 July 2019 to Question 280425, whether funding for the additional prison officers recruited is from (a) existing funding from his Department or (b) additional funding from the public purse.
This question was answered on 26th September 2019
Additional funding announced by the Secretary of State in November 2016, for an additional 2,500 prison officer posts, was agreed with HM Treasury as part of the Autumn Statement 2016.