Current status: Answered by Angela Constance on 17 September 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what estimate it has made of how many full-time equivalent prison officers there will be in 2025-26.
I have asked Teresa Medhurst, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. Her response is as follows:
The forecasting that has been undertaken to produce SPS’ workforce plan projects that SPS will employ 3623 full time equivalent prison officers on 1 April 2025. This projection relies on assumed variables, such as turnover rate.