Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March 2019 to Question 225506 on Prisons: Education, what proportion of the prison population was engaged in offender learning and skills in prisons in each of the last five years.

The Department for Education publishes data on prison education participation and completion rates. Details for the academic years 2010-11 to 2017-18 can be found at the following link:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/761349/201718_Nov_MAIN_OLASS_Particpation_FINALv1.xlsx

This data is published using total numbers, not by proportion of the population which would be disproportionate costs for us to calculate. We do not hold data centrally for unaccredited learning.