Oral Question·Cabinet Office
“What progress his Department has made on implementing the Border Target Operating Model.”
Tabled: 29 August 2023Answered: 7 September 2023
Answering Minister
the Minister for the Cabinet Office
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.