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Community Orders: Staff

Asked by Neil O'BrienConservativeMinistry of JusticeTabled Answered 20 April 2026UIN 125283

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Community Payback supervisors have been employed in each of the last five years.

Answered by Jake Richards

The number of band 3 Community Payback supervisors employed by His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service in each of the last five years is given in the following table. Figures are provided for 31 December each year and are on a full-time equivalent (FTE) basis.

Table: Number of FTE band 3 Community Payback supervisors in post on 31 December: 2021 to 2025

Date

Number (FTE)

31/12/2021

419

31/12/2022

570

31/12/2023

632

31/12/2024

623

31/12/2025

584

Notes:

1. Only includes band 3 staff with the job title of ‘community payback supervisor’. Any staff with that job title but are not band 3 are not included.

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