Question follow-through · 60876
Offenders: Employment Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to support employment opportunities for ex-offenders.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 18 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 25 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots · 15 Jul 2026
- Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 · 15 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
18 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to support employment opportunities for ex-offenders.
20 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jun 2025
Answer published
We know that finding employment after release reduces the chance of reoffending significantly, by up to nine percentage points. That is why the Government’s manifesto commits to break the cycle of reoffending by better supporting prisons to link up with e...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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