Prisons: Education

(asked on 8th June 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government what was the budget for education purposes provided to each prison during the last year for which figures are available.


Answered by
Lord Bellamy Portrait
Lord Bellamy
This question was answered on 20th June 2023

The attached table shows the annual education budget for each public sector prison in England and Wales in 2022-23. The total includes core education provider funding, library provision, the Dynamic Purchasing System budget (which the Governor can use flexibly to fund provision to meet particular local needs), and the information advice and guidance budget. The figures do not include other sources of funding that can be separately bid for, such as the Employment Innovation Fund.

Education budget totals for the following privately-managed prisons are also included in the table: HMP Doncaster, HMP Northumberland, HMP Oakwood, and HMP Thameside. The education budgets for these establishments form part of the Authority Education Framework Contract and can therefore be disaggregated from the overall funding total. It is not possible to disaggregate education provision for the remaining privately-managed prisons.

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