Prison Education

Simon Hughes
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many education hours were cancelled in prisons in England and Wales in each of the last 12 months. [124920]

Mr. Ivan Lewis
The following table shows on a month-by-month basis the reported number of hours not delivered against the total number of hours ordered between June 2002 and May 2003.----------------
|Month         |
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|June 2002     |
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|July 2002     |
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|August 2002   |
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|September 2002|
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|October 2002  |
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|November 2002 |
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|December 2002 |
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|January 2003  |
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|February 2003 |
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|March 2003    |
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|April 2003    |
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|May 2003      |
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|Total         |
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Education hours may be lost for a range of reasons including operational difficulties in prisons, staff sickness and problems with recruiting teachers.