{"value":{"id":1176830,"askingMemberId":4772,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2020-02-06T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2020-02-10T00:00:00","uin":"13594","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to set a maximum age limit for prison officer staff involved in the security of category A terrorist prisoners.","answeringBodyId":54,"answeringBodyName":"Ministry of Justice","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4517,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2020-02-13T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>There are no plans to set a maximum age for prison officers working with prisoners convicted of terrorist offences in Category A prisons.</p><p>HMPPS takes the safety of its staff seriously and takes a risk-based approach when deciding which officers are best placed to work with specific types of offender.</p><p>This is more appropriate than any blanket age limit, especially as this could exclude some of our most experienced or specialist officers and be discriminatory on age grounds.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Prisoner Officers","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1176830","method":"GET"}]}