Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 2:45 pm on 12 March 2019.
Lord Keen of Elie
Lords Spokesperson (Ministry of Justice), The Advocate-General for Scotland
2:45,
12 March 2019
My Lords, we absolutely agree that education, training and work are central to prisoners turning their lives around and we believe it is right and sensible for ex-prisoner employment to come from a number of different sources. The corporate social responsibility agenda has an important place here. We have also launched the New Futures Network to engage and persuade employers to take on ex-prisoners and are developing a new policy of release on temporary licence to increase the opportunities available to prisoners to gain experience in the real workplace.