To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many people in (a) the secure estate and (b) Reading Young Offender Institution sat (i) GCSE and (ii) A Level examinations in each year since 2004. (295950)

The information is not available in the format requested, as we do not record the number of people sitting exams.

Table 1 shows that there were 788 GCSE enrolments and 112 GCE, A/AS and A2 level enrolments by learners funded through the Offenders’ Learning and Skills Service in the 2006/07 academic year and 1,194 GCSE enrolments and 264 GCE, A/AS and A2 level enrolments in the 2007/08 academic year—an increase of 406. There was no record of GCSE and GCE, A/AS/A2 level enrolments recorded in HMP and YOI Reading in either year.