Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 1841
Offenders: Employment
Tabled: 25 July 2024
Answered: 2 August 2024
Question
Ben Goldsborough
Labour — South Norfolk
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners found work within six months of their release in each year since 2010.
Answer
Sir Nicholas DakinWe know that finding employment in the year after release makes offenders less likely to reoffend, by up to nine percentage points. Getting ex-offenders into work is critical to the Government’s work to break the cycle of reoffending. That is why in our m...
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