In May last year, we published our plans for reforming prison education and improving employment outcomes for ex-offenders in the Education and Employment Strategy. The strategy created a system in which each prisoner was set on a path to employment, with prison education and work geared towards employment on release from the outset.<\/p>
<\/p>
In line with this, we introduced new performance measures to record the rates of employment for prison leavers at six weeks post-release. The Department is scheduled to publish the statistical data for this on 25 July in an annex to Community Performance Statistics on Gov.uk, at the following link:<\/p>
<\/p>
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics<\/a><\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance is issued to Coroners on respect for religious beliefs which require speedy burial following death.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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