Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average hours per young offender per week spent in physical education were in each year since 2010.

This information is not held centrally.

Secure Children’s Homes (SCH) provide 30 hours of education, including physical education, per week.

The contractual expectation is that young people in both Secure Training Centres (STC) and the private sector under-18 Young Offender Institutions (YOI) spend 25 hours in education, including physical education, per week.

Public sector under-18 YOIs provide 30 hours of education per week, this includes 3 hours of physical education.

In November 2017, Ministry of Justice (MoJ) commissioned the National Alliance of Sport for the Desistance of Crime (NASDC) to review how sport can be used as a tool in the rehabilitation and resettlement of young offenders. The findings of NASDC’s review will be published in 2018.