Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which companies were contracted by his Department to provide training for (a) prisoners and (b) prison staff in each of the last five years; and what his Department's expenditure on companies contracted to train (i) prisoners and (ii) prison staff has been in each of the last five years.
Private Prisons:
The price paid for running private prisons does not include a breakdown of costs for training. Private prison contractors are required to provide training for both prisoners and staff in line with Prison Service Instructions (PSIs) and Prison Service Orders (PSOs) as part of their contracts.
Public Prisons:
The companies that were contracted to provide training for prisoners in the last five years are:
PERTEMPS PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT GROUP |
ST GILES TRUST |
THE FOUNDATION TRAINING COMPANY |
THE CLINK RESTAURANT COMPANY |
PRISON RADIO ASSOCIATION |
SERCO GROUP PLC |
PERTEMPS PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT GROUP |
WORKING LINKS |
MERSEYSIDE PROBATION TRUST |
LEICESTERSHIRE & RUTLAND PROBATION TRUST |
LONDON PROBATION TRUST |
WEST YORKSHIRE PROBATION TRUST |
SOVA |
TRIBAL GROUP PLC |
THE MANCHESTER COLLEGE |
A4E CONSULTING LTD |
SOUTH YORKSHIRE PROBATION TRUST |
THE MERSEYSIDE COMMUNITY REHABILITATION COMPANY |
THE WEST YORKSHIRE COMMUNITY REHABILITATION COMPANY |
THE DERBYSHIRE LEICESTERSHIRE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE AND RUTLAND COMMUNITY REHABILITATION COMPANY |
The companies that were contracted to provide training for staff in the last five years are:
The Fire Service College |
Roffey park Institute |
Ashbourne assessments |
QA Ltd |
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents |
Common Purpose UK |
City of Bristol College |
Berkshire Consultancy Ltd |
Learn Direct (was JHP Group Ltd) |
National Construction College (CITB-ConstructionSkills) |
RTW Training Services Ltd |
Leeds College of Building |
Cambridge University |
Behavioural Measures UK Ltd |
CQM Learning Ltd |
Capita |
Total spend for prisoners training:
2009 / 10 | 2010 / 11 | 2011 / 12 | 2012 / 13 | 2013 / 14 |
N/A | N/A | £40,852,860.56 | £28,545,826.02 | £26,224,572.48 |
Total spend for staff training:
2009 / 10 | 2010 / 11 | 2011 / 12 | 2012 / 13 | 2013 / 14 |
£1,196,652.55 | £1,201,946.52 | £3,278,174.07 | £3,100,465.41 | £2,360,469.02 |
Spend above includes all spend with each of the suppliers listed above so may include some elements that are not purely training. There is a reduction in the amount spent on prisoners training between 2011 and 2014. The majority of the money for prisoner training comes from European Social funding (ESF). There was an overlap in 11/12 of two rounds of ESF funding which is reflected as a higher amount in the annual totals. NOMS funding remained relatively stable throughout the period at around £5m.
The cost of much education in prisons falls to the Department of Business Innovation and Skills