After years of under-investment, under-training, offshoring and devaluing of the second biggest industry in the UK, let's give jobs that require a high degree of trust to the proven untrustworthy (Government turns to prisoners to tackle IT skills shortages, www.computing.co.uk/2218728).

What's wrong with skilling up the unemployed who desperately want to get into IT? Although I suppose being able to hotwire cars would make you quite good at cabling.

This is another example of how this government has no idea about the IT industry. Give me strength.

John Watson