Ms Caron McCaffrey:

I will take the question on in-cell learning and where it came from. We have vibrant education centres in all our prisons. The purpose of in-cell learning is not to replace that but to supplement it. Given the limitations within the prison day, the education unit runs in the morning and afternoon but many people spend much of their time in their cells during the evenings, weekends, and on summer holidays when school is not running during July and August within our prisons. When Covid-19 hit and our schools closed there was a huge gap in terms of participation in education so in any given week about 45% of the prison population engages in the prison schools. This demonstrates how valuable and central they are to the provision of services.