Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, by what (a) criteria and (b) date the performance of his Department’s New Futures Network initiative supporting offenders into employment will be assessed.
We are completing the roll-out of the New Futures Network, with 13 of the 15 geographical prison groups across England and Wales now covered.
The New Futures Network is responsible for three things:
It will be assessed against those criteria at the end of this financial year, as part of the annual HMPPS reporting cycle.