Parole Board: Manpower

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many caseworkers the Parole Board employed to work on (a) oral hearings, (b) paper hearings, (c) post-panel reviews and (d) other matters in each of the last five years. (289560)

The number of staff employed in each department of the Parole Board, is set out in the following table:

	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Oral Hearings Team	20	26	29	29	32
Paper Hearings Team	14	12	12	11	9
Post Panel Team	7	7	7	9	10
Re4Re Team (formerly RARE Team)	0	3	5	10	8
Listings and Rota/Reprographic/Post	0	4	3	4	7
Finance Department	3	4	4	4	4
IT Department	3	2	3	3	2
Human Resources Department	3	2	3	2	3
Corporate Services	1	3	2	5	4
Other Secretaries/Typists	5	5	4	1	2
Senior Members of Staff	4	5	6	7	8

Volume 497: debated on Thursday 15 October 2009