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Commons Chamber6. What steps he plans to take to provide relevant skills to offenders to enable them to find work when they leave prison.
16. What steps he plans to take to provide offenders with relevant skills and training in order to help them find work when they leave prison.
On 18 May, to great acclaim, I launched “Making prisons work: skills for rehabilitation”, the report on offender learning that I commissioned last summer. It sets out a substantial programme of reform to increase the positive impact of offender learning on reoffending rates and on former prisoners’ capacity to reintegrate successfully into civil society.