Oral Question·Ministry of Justice
“What assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the Third Report of the Justice Committee of Session 2022-23 on IPP sentences, HC 266, published on 22 September 2022.”
Tabled: 22 May 2025Answered: 3 June 2025
Asked by
Tessa Munt
Liberal Democrat — Wells and Mendip Hills
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Justice
Answer from Hansard
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (Sir Nicholas Dakin)
We continue to support IPP offenders through our updated action plan, which contributed to a 9% decrease in IPP offenders in prison in the last year, but we will not put public protection at risk. The Prisons Minister in the other place and I continue to meet regularly with MPs, peers and other stakeholders to work together on supporting this cohort.