Prisoners: Wales
(asked on 14th September 2026) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many IPP prisoners from Wales (based on home address) were (a) unreleased, and (b) recalled in (i) March, (ii) June, (iii) September, and (iv) December, of 2025.
The table below shows the number of prisoners serving Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences whose recorded home address is in Wales.
Snapshot Date | Number of unreleased IPP prisoners | Number of recalled IPP prisoners | Total |
31/03/2025 | 47 | 87 | 134 |
30/06/2025 | 43 | 87 | 130 |
30/09/2025 | 44 | 80 | 124 |
31/12/2025 | 43 | 81 | 124 |
The figures in these tables have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
On 1 September, the Lord Chancellor announced that the Government will bring an end to the IPP sentence for those who continue to serve it and will bring forward legislation to do this by the end of this Parliament. These are complex cases, involving important public protection and victim considerations. Reform will take time to get right.