Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Ministry of Justice

Oral Answers to Questions

Mary Glindon Excerpts
Tuesday 22nd November 2022

(2 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mary Glindon Portrait Mary Glindon (North Tyneside) (Lab)
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T6. Imprisonment for public protection—IPP—sentences are a stain on the criminal justice system, but the Justice Committee’s recent report offers a way forward. Will the Minister take the opportunity to act on the report’s key recommendation of a mass re-sentencing exercise, or will he allow the hopelessness, despair and even suicide among IPP prisoners to shamefully continue?

Edward Argar Portrait The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Edward Argar)
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I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her question, which she puts with typical passion and care. My noble Friend Lord Bellamy and I are carefully considering the Justice Committee report and will respond to it in due course.