Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether support payments for organisations with contracts under the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System and which are eligible to apply for covid-19 relief payments will be paid from (a) a central fund for HMPPS, (b) individual prison budgets or (c) other public sources.

Under the COVID-19 procurement process, the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System contracts are paid in line with the existing payment schedule. The payments are funded from the annual HMPPS (business as usual) education budget.