HC Deb 06 February 1980 vol 978 cc218-9W
Mr. Thomas Cox

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the present ratio of prison officers to prisoners in Her Majesty's prisons.

Mr. Brittan

The ratio of staff in post of the prison officer class as a whole to prisoners in the penal establishments of England and Wales on 1 January 1980 was 1:2.59.