Prisons: Training

(asked on 11th February 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many training places are available at each prison in England and Wales.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 19th February 2019

This data is maintained at local level and can only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Across the prison estate in England and Wales, there are a number of prisons with different predominant functions and various amounts of capacity. Closed training prisons provide a range of facilities for category B or category C prisoners who are serving medium to long-term sentences and offer a variety of activities in prison workshops, gardens, educational courses and offending behaviour programmes. Capacity data is available online which could be used to quantify the total capacity of the training estate. The links below can be used to access function and capacity:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-population-figures-2019

A list of prisons classified by predominant function can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prisons-and-their-resettlement-providers

Our Education and Employment Strategy published in May 2018 sets out our clear intention to ensure that more offenders leave prison with the basic skills that are essential to entering the workplace, and with the skills employers need.

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