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Debates during the 2024 Parliament
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Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
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Lords initiatives
These initiatives were driven by Baroness Burt of Solihull, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences.
7 Bills introduced by Baroness Burt of Solihull
A Bill to amend the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 to make provision regarding assemblies at state schools without a designated religious character in England; to repeal the requirement for those schools to hold collective worship; and for connected purposes
Friday 6th May 2022
A Bill to amend the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 to make provision regarding assemblies at state schools without a designated religious character in England; to repeal the requirement for those schools to hold collective worship; and for connected purposes.
A Bill to prohibit sexual orientation and gender identity conversion therapy; and for connected purposes.
Friday 9th February 2024
A Bill to make provision to include non-religious philosophical convictions within the school curriculum; to require that persons who hold non-religious philosophical convictions must be represented at standing advisory councils on religious education and at agreed syllabus conferences; and for connected purposes
A Bill to introduce an entitlement to assemblies that further the spiritual, moral, social and cultural education of all pupils, regardless of religion or belief, at state schools without a designated religious character in England; to repeal the requirement for these schools to hold collective worship; and for connected purposes.
A Bill to make provision for the support of the United Kingdom’s business sector; and the development of an industrial and retail strategy.
Tuesday 14th June 2016
A Bill to ensure that ancillary pricing terms in personal financial services contracts can be assessed for fairness; and for connected purposes.
Wednesday 30th June 2010
Baroness Burt of Solihull has not co-sponsored any Bills in the current parliamentary sitting
Latest 1 Written Question
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(View all Baroness Burt of Solihull's ministry-of-justice questions)Figures on the number of unreleased IPP prisoners, broken down by time over tariff, are published in Offender Management Statistics Quarterly (OMSQ) in Table 1.Q.18 here: prison-population-31-Dec-2024.ods. The data has also been provided with this response by separate attachment for ease.
Table 1 shows the number of post-tariff unreleased prisoners serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence, broken down by time over tariff; as at 31 December 2024, in England & Wales. The bandings for these data are aligned to published data.
Table 2 shows the number of offenders serving an IPP sentence on licence in the community, broken down by the number of years since their tariff expiry, as at 30 September 2024, in England and Wales(1). The bandings for these data are also aligned to published data.
It is right that the IPP sentence was abolished, and this Government is determined that those serving the sentence get all the support and opportunities they need to make further progress towards a safe and sustainable release.
On 15 November 2024, the Government published the updated IPP Action Plan, which puts a stronger emphasis on effective frontline delivery in our prisons. It will ensure that prisoners serving IPP sentences have robust and effective sentence plans, which they are actively engaging with, and that they are in the correct prison to access the right interventions and rehabilitative services.
The IPP Action Plan and the commitment to deliver it have contributed to the overall reduction in the IPP population. The unreleased prison population fell from 1,227 in December 2023, to 1,045 in December 2024.
The Government also acted swiftly to commence the IPP measures in the Victims and Prisoners Act, which led to the automatic termination of licence for 1,742 cases on 1 November 2024. We also commenced the new power to re-release recalled IPP offenders executively through Risk Assessed Recall Review (RARR).
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)