Offenders: Employment

(asked on 23rd October 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people of working age leaving prison obtained employment following release in the last year for which information is available.


Answered by
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Lord Keen of Elie
This question was answered on 6th November 2018

Based on matched MOJ-DWP data on the proportion of working age adult offenders released from prison in 2011/12, 17% were in employment 12 months after release from custody.

More recent data from 2014/15 indicates that at a national level, 26.5% of prisoners were entering employment upon release, but this data was self-reported and we don’t have a split in this rate for length of sentence served.

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