HC Deb 26 October 1998 vol 318 cc47-8W
32. Mr. Boswell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking to improve prison education. [53541]

Mr. George Howarth

The Prison Service has taken a number of steps to improve prison education. It has developed a new education policy to support the Government's wider policies aimed at improving basic and key skills. The new measures should achieve significant improvements in levels of literacy and numeracy among prisoners over the next three years.