Prisoners: Literacy
Commons · Question 7293 · Tabled 4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 11 Oct 2024
Question
Asked by Paul Davies
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisons have a literacy programme.
Answer
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin, 11 Oct 2024
All prisons assess prisoner literacy on entry, and deliver English Functional Skills qualifications via the main Prison Education Framework.HMPPS also fund 62 additional literacy and reading contracts across 80 prisons via the more locally commissioned Dy...