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Lord Hope of Craighead (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 15 September 2025

Debate

IPP Sentences

Contribution

My Lords, will the Minister inform the House of how many of these prisoners are now refusing to engage with the processes required to satisfy the Parole Board’s current tests for release because they have lost confidence in the system? If they have, is it not time to think again?

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