Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to reduce reoffending.

We have opened up the delivery of rehabilitation services to a diverse range of public, private and voluntary sector providers, who will only be paid in full if they are successful at reducing reoffending. Rehabilitation support has also been extended to an extra 45,000 offenders on sentences of less than 12 months, who previously received little if any support on release and have the highest reoffending rates.