To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the present number of vacancies of prison officers and their grades at Belmarsh prison, London; and if he will make a statement.

Staff have been provided to operate the four house blocks and three of the four spurs of the category A unit at Belmarsh. There are vacancies in the specialist prison officer grades for three senior hospital officers, one officer instructor, one principal officer works and two works officers.