Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2023 to Question 191280 on Prisons: Education, whether indexation occurred on 1 April 2023.

Indexation is applied on 1 April each year. The uplift for 2023-24 is based on the Consumer Price Index data for February, which were published by the Office for National Statistics on 22 March 2023: Consumer price inflation, UK: February 2023 - Office for National Statistics