Oral Question·Attorney General
“What assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the unduly lenient sentence scheme.”
Tabled: 17 March 2022Answered: 24 March 2022
Answering Minister
the Attorney General
Answer from Hansard
The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Mr David Lammy)
It is right that the IPP sentence was abolished. The number of unreleased IPP prisoners fell to 946, as of 30 September 2025—a reduction of 14% compared with the previous year. Legislative changes that we implemented have reduced the number of people serving IPP sentences in the community to around two thirds.