Question follow-through · 74593
Prisons: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing inmates to apply for jobs in prison while on remand.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 10 Sept 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing inmates to apply for jobs in prison while on remand.
4 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Ministry of Justice acknowledges the importance of purposeful activity including employment in custody for convicted prisoners and for those on remand.Under Section 31 of the Prison Rules 1999, un-convicted prisoners are already permitted to take up p...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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