Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners gained vocational qualifications in each of the last 12 years.

This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Since 2019, the Ministry of Justice has centrally recorded the number of educational courses completed by prisoners, however the information collected does not differentiate between vocational qualifications and other types.

Statistics on the number of course completions are published on gov.uk, in table 2.3 here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-education-and-accredited-programme-statistics-2021-2022.