Question follow-through · 61731
Offenders: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of effectiveness of her Department's programmes for supporting offenders in returning to employment in Sutton Coldfield constituency.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 23 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 30 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of effectiveness of her Department's programmes for supporting offenders in returning to employment in Sutton Coldfield constituency.
25 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 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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