§ Sir Ivan LawrenceTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what sum of money has been allocated to education in prisons over each of the past five years.
§ Mr. Peter LloydResponsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Derek Lewis to Sir Ivan Lawrence, dated February 1994:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the sum of money allocated to education in prisons over the past five years.
The total expenditure on education services in prisons in England and Wales in the past five years was as follows:
Year £ million 1988–89 19.5 1989–90 22.9 1990–91 25.5 1991–92 29.5 1992–93 31.5