Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of including distance learning undertaken by prisoners as purposeful activity.

All prisons have systems in place for the day-to-day management of regime delivery. Each prison has a regime management plan that clearly sets out the full range of prisoner activities and services delivered within the prison, morning and afternoon, from Monday to Friday.

All types of education, including distance learning, are factored into a prison’s regime management plan as part of the purposeful activity that prisoners undertake.