| Heading: |
Prisoners' Release: Literacy |
| Question ID: |
1787078 |
| UIN: |
40133 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-20 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5317 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Paul Davies
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Paul Davies
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department provides support for prisoners to help them continue improving their literacy skills after release. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-27 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4056 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Nicholas Dakin
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Sir Nicholas Dakin
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| Answer text: |
A key aim of His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) prison education service is to support prisoners to develop their functional literacy skills so that they can be fully rehabilitated into society upon release. Prisoners have access to local ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |