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Mr. Syms
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the Prison Service staff referred to on page 195 of the 2001–02 Home Office annual report are based in prisons. [101910]
Hilary Benn
Of the 42,057 permanent Prison Service staff included in the total quoted in the 2001–02 Home Office Annual Report, 39,983 were based in prisons.