Prisoners: Learning Disability
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in the prison population are deemed to have a learning difficulty.
Answered by Jake Richards
The data we hold is for public sector prisons in England only (education in Wales is a devolved responsibility) and is limited to prisoners who have undertaken an assessment of educational standard prior to enrolment on an education course, rather than the population as a whole. It can be found via the following link:
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