Prison Sentences
(asked on 17th October 2024) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people serving an imprisonment for public protection sentence in prison were originally given a tariff of (a) six months, (b) 12 months, (c) 18 months, (d) two years, (e) three years and (f) five years or under.
The number of prisoners serving a sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) who have never been released, as of 30 June 2024, and were sentenced to tariffs of six months, 12 months, 18 months, two years, three years and five years or under, five years to ten years are set out in the table below.
Original Tariff | Count | Proportion of those unreleased in prison |
Less than 6 months | 5 | 0.4% |
6 months to less than 12 months | 15 | 1.3% |
12 months to less than 18 months | 47 | 4.2% |
18 months to less than 2 years | 121 | 10.7% |
2 years to less than 3 years | 253 | 22.3% |
3 years to 5 years | 372 | 33.0% |
5 years to 10 years | 280 | 24.7% |
Tariff not recorded | 2 |
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Notes:
1. Tariff length is the time between date of sentencing and tariff expiry date and does not take into account any time served on remand.
2. 'Tariff not recorded' includes cases where a confirmed tariff expiry date has yet to be received, and any unmatched records.
It is right that IPP sentences were abolished, and we are committed to working at pace to support the progression of all those serving the IPP sentence, but not in a way that undermines public protection.