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<p>All prisons in England and Wales have a library. NOMS has been responsible for
funding prison library services in England from April 2011.</p><p>The total NOMS allocated
budget for prison libraries in 2015/16 in England was £7,592,414</p><p>The attached
table shows both the provider and allocated library budget for each prison in England
since 2010. NOMS is not responsible for funding library services in prisons in Wales
as this is a devolved function of the Welsh Government so data is not included. Privately
managed prison contracts put in place since 2011 have identified levels of funding
for libraries and so are included in the table. The table does not include library
provision at privately managed prisons whose contracts were awarded before 2011 as
this was part of the overall included contract price and so it is not possible to
extract a specific cost element to this part of the contract. This equates to 10 prisons.</p><p>On
8 September 2015 the Secretary of State announced a review of the quality of education
in prisons, chaired by Dame Sally Coates, which will report later in the year.</p>
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