Justice written question – answered at on 8 December 2010.
Paul Maynard
Conservative, Blackpool North and Cleveleys
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will bring forward proposals to increase the discharge grant by the rate of inflation each year.
Crispin Blunt
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice) (Prisons and Probation)
There are currently no proposals to increase the discharge grant issued to prisoners on release from prison.
The provision of a lump sum discharge grant is not a very satisfactory way of meeting prisoners' immediate financial needs on release. The National Offender Management Service is working with the Department for Work and Pensions to identify the best way to address the prisoner finance gap.
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