Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will provide a breakdown of what the £200 million allocated by his Department to be spent on prisoner rehabilitation each year by 2024-25 will be spent on; and how that spending will be measured.

As set out in our Prisons Strategy White Paper, we are building on the £50 million investment made in 2021 by spending £200 million a year by 2024-25 on reducing reoffending. We will spend this on improving prison leavers’ access to accommodation, by transforming education in prisons and how we get offenders into work, substance misuse treatment and further measures for early intervention to tackle youth offending.

We will set plans out in further detail when our Outcome Delivery Plan 2022-25 is published, in the coming months.