Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 7294

Prisoners: Literacy

Tabled: 4 October 2024

Answered: 11 October 2024

Question

Paul Davies

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisons have a one-to-one literacy mentoring programme.

Answer

Sir Nicholas Dakin

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...

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