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HANSARDPrison Officers: Occupational PensionMy Lords, it is two years.16 Jun 2022HANSARDPrison Officers: Occupational PensionMy Lords, a newly recruited prison officer may draw the full occupational pension on reaching state pension age, which is between 65 and 68, depending on their date of birth, and…16 Jun 2022HANSARDPrison Officers: Occupational PensionMy Lords, while the Government acknowledge the challenging environment in which prison officers work, we consider that, by comparison with emergency services such as the police or…16 Jun 2022HANSARDPrison Officers: Occupational PensionMy Lords, I beg to differ. The importance of rehabilitation is known. Indeed, as we are on the topic of retirement of prison officers, one of the things that prison officers can…16 Jun 2022HANSARDPrison Officers: Occupational PensionMy Lords, it is dependent on the assessment carried out by occupational health as to the person’s capacity.16 Jun 2022HANSARDPrison Officers: Occupational PensionI am grateful to the noble Baroness for her clarification of the point, which perhaps was obvious to your Lordships at the outset. As I understand it, it will be a matter of…16 Jun 2022HANSARDPrison Officers: Occupational PensionMy Lords, the noble Lord anticipated that this would lie outwith my brief. I regret to say that I am not in possession of the terms of the statement to which the noble Lord…16 Jun 2022HANSARDPrison Officers: Occupational PensionThe Pensions Minister —in that case, my information is even further away from what the noble Lord asked, so I will, with his leave, have to revert to him on that point in writing.16 Jun 2022HANSARDPrison Officers: Occupational PensionA prison officer can retire at an age between 65 and 68. That is now in line, according to the alpha scheme under which prison pensions are paid. A person on the scheme must have…16 Jun 2022HANSARDPrison Officers: Occupational PensionMy Lords, in relation to the final matter that the noble Lord raises, in spite of my Scottish background, I regret to say that I am not at this stage able to answer his question…16 Jun 2022HANSARDPrison Officers: Occupational PensionMy Lords, the noble Lord and I share a background in the criminal justice system, and I am as aware as he is of the potential for violence to be inflicted on prison officers…16 Jun 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol: First Treasury CounselMy Lords, pacts are indeed there to be kept: pacta sunt servanda. The Government are not departing from a legal principle; they are acting in good faith to preserve the protocol…09 Jun 2022HANSARDProbation and Court Services: WorkloadMy Lords, I regret that once again I do not have the specific data in relation to the IPP plan to which my noble friend Lord Moylan refers. Once again, with his patience and that…09 Jun 2022HANSARDProbation and Court Services: WorkloadMy Lords, as of March 2022, 96% of probation officers and National Probation Service officers held fewer than 50 cases, with an average case load of 34. The average case load for…09 Jun 2022HANSARDProbation and Court Services: WorkloadMy Lords, the position in relation to the National Probation Service is that a new model of working is being introduced which necessarily is causing some strain in the service.…09 Jun 2022HANSARDProbation and Court Services: WorkloadMy Lords, I undertake to write to the noble Lord in relation to that study. I do not have information to hand on its progress but if I may pray the noble Lord’s patience, I will…09 Jun 2022HANSARDProbation and Court Services: WorkloadMy Lords, once again I do not have the specific numerical answers to the noble Lord’s question, but I agree with everything that he said in his prefatory remarks about the…09 Jun 2022HANSARDProbation and Court Services: WorkloadMy Lords, one of the difficulties in relation to retention of staff in this body is a pay structure which means that the pay of Cafcass staff, tied as it is to Civil Service…09 Jun 2022HANSARDProbation and Court Services: WorkloadMy Lords, disclosure of and taking into account the views of persons who are connected with or are directly victims of crimes is not a matter which bears directly upon the…09 Jun 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol: First Treasury CounselMy Lords, we are in contact with all shades of opinion in Northern Ireland, trying to move forward the position whereby the institutions of devolved government can be restored and…09 Jun 2022