§ Mr. PawseyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment to which policy initiative she has devoted most funding in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement on progress with each initiative. [13929]
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe effectiveness of initiatives in education and employment does not depend solely on the funding allocated to them, and many of the initiatives of
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§ Sir John WheelerIt is the practice of the Northern Ireland Office, influenced by considerations of public interest and confidentiality, not to give disclosure to life sentence prisoners of dossiers concerning their life sentence reviews. This practice is set in the context of circumstances in which the majority of life sentence prisoners have been convicted of very serious terrorist-related offences. Both the law and practice in England and Wales is different, where prisoners are normally entitled to disclosure of papers which are put to the Parole Board.