Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the abolition of Indeterminate Sentences for Public Protection (IPP) in 2012, whether everyone given an IPP sentence has had their sentence transmuted into a determinate sentence; and if will make a statement.
As the abolition of the IPP sentence was not applied retrospectively, those who had already been sentenced to and were serving an IPP sentence continued to serve the sentence itself either because they had not yet served the minimum term of imprisonment or, where they have served the minimum term, because the independent Parole Board had determined that their risk remained too high for them to be safely managed in the community. Therefore, no offender who received an IPP sentence has had the sentence transmuted into a determinate sentence.