Prisoners: Higher Education
Business, Innovation and Skills
Written answers and statements, 20 July 2009
George Galloway (Bethnal Green & Bow, Respect)
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many prisoners gained a degree while in prison in (a) 2000, (b) 2001, (c) 2002, (d) 2003, (e) 2004, (f) 2005, (g) 2006 and (h) 2007.
Kevin Brennan (Minister of State (also in the Department for Business, Innovations and Skills), Department for Children, Schools and Families; Cardiff West, Labour)
holding answer
The number of offenders gaining Open University degrees while in prison, broken down by year, is as follows:
| Number | |
| 2000 | 11 |
| 2001 | 17 |
| 2002 | 13 |
| 2003 | 16 |
| 2004 | 17 |
| 2005 | 22 |
| 2006 | 25 |
| 2007 | 16 |
Information on degree qualifications awarded by other higher education institutions is not collected centrally.