Asked by: Will Quince (Conservative - Colchester)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many discharge grants were paid in the last year for which figures are available.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The total number of Discharge Grants issued over the last financial year was 59,587 at a value of £2.7m for Public Sector Prisons. The figures have been extracted from the Prison National Offender Management Information System (P-NOMIS), which is the central prisoner information recording system. Discharge Grant data pertaining to contracted out prisons and in relation to administration costs can be obtained only at disproportionate costs.
Asked by: Will Quince (Conservative - Colchester)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much, including administration costs, was spent on the Discharge Grant Scheme in the last year for which figures are available.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The total number of Discharge Grants issued over the last financial year was 59,587 at a value of £2.7m for Public Sector Prisons. The figures have been extracted from the Prison National Offender Management Information System (P-NOMIS), which is the central prisoner information recording system. Discharge Grant data pertaining to contracted out prisons and in relation to administration costs can be obtained only at disproportionate costs.
Asked by: Will Quince (Conservative - Colchester)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to improve education in prisons.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
Education is key to helping prisoners turn their lives around and in particular to securing employment which we know reduces reoffending. We realise that many prisoners have led challenging lives and may have missed out on the opportunity to learn. For example nearly one third struggle with learning difficulties or disabilities and only a quarter enter employment on release. Dame Sally Coates was asked to lead an independent review of education in prisons. This was published on 18th May 2016 and we have accepted in principle all the recommendations made.
Asked by: Will Quince (Conservative - Colchester)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 21 April 2016 to Question 34465, if his Department will take steps to allow web-users to include honours when completing Government online forms.
Answered by Mike Penning
My Department currently has no general plans to allow web users to include honours when completing on line forms.