To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many are employed in the National Offender Management Service Head Office; and how many of these are former employees of the (a) probation and (b) prison service. (240455)

4,270 staff are employed in National Offender Management Service Headquarters. Of these, 113 transferred from the National Probation Service, 742 transferred from the former National Offender Management Service HQ, and 3,415 from the Prison Service Headquarters.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many persons have been seconded from (a) the Probation Service and (b) the Prison Service to work in the National Offender Management Service’s headquarters. (241332)

There are currently 98 probation service staff on secondment into the National Offender Management Service headquarters. Prison Service staff share the same terms and conditions as other directly employed staff working in the National Offender Management Service headquarters and are therefore not on secondment.