John Howell – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Howell on 2016-03-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to improve education in prisons; and if he will make a statement.

Andrew Selous

We want prisons to be places of rigorous education and hard work, As Dame Sally Coates will recommend in her impending report, we want to give control of education in prisoners to governors so they can bring in new providers and hold them to account. That’s why we are also protecting the £130m prison education budget in cash terms.