Prisons: Education
(asked on 2nd March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to improve education in prisons; and if he will make a statement.
This question was answered on 8th March 2016
We want prisons to be places of rigorous education and hard work, As Dame Sally Coates will recommend in her impending report, we want to give control of education in prisoners to governors so they can bring in new providers and hold them to account. That's why we are also protecting the £130m prison education budget in cash terms.