Prisons

Part of Opposition Day – in the House of Commons at 12:56 pm on 25 January 2017.

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Photo of Toby Perkins Toby Perkins Labour, Chesterfield 12:56, 25 January 2017

Is my hon. Friend as worried as I am that not only has there been the huge reduction in the number of prison officers, but there seems to be a deliberate strategy to get more experienced, more expensive prison officers to stand down—to retire—and to replace them with cheap apprentices and graduates? There is a real lack of experience in our prison sector as well as a dangerous lack of officer numbers.