United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 35
Prisoners: Literacy
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19 December 2019
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7 January 2020 · Answer
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7 January 2020
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of the prison population who are illiterate; and what steps he is taking to tackle illiteracy in the prison population.
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19 December 2019
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of the prison population who are illiterate; and what steps he is taking to tackle illiteracy in the prison population.
Source: Commons
7 January 2020
Answer
The Department for Education publishes data on English & maths screenings undertaken when someone is received into prison. English screening data provides information on the proportion of prisoners who have very low levels of literacy. The most recent...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2019-12-19/35
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1168496
- uk · wq-1168496 · source updated 7 January 2020