PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Offenders: Literacy (18 March 2015)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many literacy courses were enrolled on by offenders assessed as having a literacy need in each year since 2010.
Asked by:
Alison McGovern (Labour)
Asked by:
Alison McGovern (Labour)
Answer
Information for each academic year since 2010/11 on prisoner participation in English and maths is published in the FE data library (first link) as a supplementary table (second link) to a Statistical First Release.
The number of prisoners participating who were assessed as having a literacy need was not recorded for these years.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fe-data-library
Answered by:
Nick Boles (Independent)
23 March 2015
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