| Heading: |
Prisons: Reading |
| Question ID: |
1796472 |
| UIN: |
47487 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-23 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5205 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Ben Goldsborough
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Ben Goldsborough
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisons have a reading (a) strategy and (b) programme. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-01 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4056 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Nicholas Dakin
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Sir Nicholas Dakin
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| Answer text: |
All prisons screen prisoners on arrival for reading ability and offer a curriculum with reading as part of the Entry Level, Level 1 and Level 2 English courses.Courses delivered under the Prison Education Framework (PEF) include both accredited and non-ac... |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |