Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many prison officers have been sent on detached duty to fill staffing gaps in other prisons in the last 12 months.
The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
It is not possible to identify how many prison officers have been on detached duty during the past twelve months as some will have been deployed on multiple occasions. The period of deployment can vary from two to fourteen weeks.