Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders leaving prison secured employment within four weeks of release in the last financial year.
We will be publishing data in July 2019 on the number of offenders who entered employment on release from custody for the period 2018/19 as part of the Community performance release. It can be accessed using the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/community-performance-quarterly-mi-update-to-march-2018
The data will not include information on the numbers of offenders leaving prison who entered further and higher education, which could only be provided at disproportionate cost.