Question follow-through · 62023
Prisons: Chess
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2025 to Question 58502, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of chess in prisons on reducing offending behaviour.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 23 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 1 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2025 to Question 58502, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of chess in prisons on reducing offending behaviour.
25 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Ministry of Justice is aware of research that is in progress in relation to regular chess sessions across the prison estate. To date, no formal assessment has been made of any effect on re-offending.As chess is not a structured physical activity, it i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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