Prisons: Education

(asked on 10th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) capacity and (b) attendance was of the prisons education, learning and skills departments in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Sam Gyimah Portrait
Sam Gyimah
This question was answered on 18th July 2017

The education curriculum for each prison in England is agreed locally by the prison governor with their Offender Learning and Skills Service provider and decisions over the available capacity are made locally. Information on the capacity of learning and skills departments in individual prisons is not collected nationally.

National data on the total number of offenders aged 18 and over in the prison system participating in learning in England from academic year 2010/11 is published and can be found here (table 10):

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/624613/Further-education-and-skills-July-2017-SFR-27-2017-main-tables_ODS.ods.

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