Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 26090

Prisoners: Costs

Tabled: 23 January 2025
Answered: 30 January 2025
Named Day

Question

Kim Johnson

LabourLiverpool Riverside

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate she has made of the annual cost to the public purse of people serving imprisonment for public protection sentences.

Answer

Sir Nicholas Dakin
It is right that the sentence was abolished. The Government is determined to make further progress towards a safe and sustainable release for those serving the IPP sentence, but not in a way that impacts public protection.For 2022/23, the average Overall ...

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