Question follow-through · 40134
Prisons: Literacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to (a) measure and (b) evaluate the effectiveness of literacy programs in prisons.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 20 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 27 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to (a) measure and (b) evaluate the effectiveness of literacy programs in prisons.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Mar 2025
Answer published
We have robust evidence on the positive benefits of education to reducing reoffending, however, we don’t have specific evidence for the link between literacy levels and reoffending. We are currently improving our understanding of factors influencing parti...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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