Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 1841

Offenders: Employment

Tabled: 25 July 2024
Answered: 2 August 2024

Question

Ben Goldsborough

LabourSouth 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 Dakin
We 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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