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Prison Sentences

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 yea

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
17 Oct 2024
Target answer date
22 Oct 2024
Answer
24 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 17 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    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 yea

  2. 22 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 24 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    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, fiv...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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Prisoners

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Parole

2 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2024 to Question 15952 on Prisoners, how many and what proportion of Parole Board recommendations were rejected by the Government in each of the last 12 months.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Parole

2 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2024 to Question 15952, on Prisoners, how many and what proportion of Parole Board recommendations on releasing (a) prisoners serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection se

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Prisoners: Open Prisons

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prisoners' Release: Homelessness

19 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been recalled to prison because of homelessness in each of the last 12 months.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prisoners' Release: Homelessness

19 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving an IPP sentence have been recalled to prison because of homelessness in each of the last 12 months.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prisoners' Release

19 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence have been recalled to prison by (a) category and (b) reason for recall, in each of the past eight quarters.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prisoners' Release

19 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence have been recalled to prison due to criminal allegations made against them which did not result in further polic

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prisons: Procurement

19 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2024 to Question HL3055, Prisons: Repairs and Maintenance, whether the public sector will be allowed to bid for new contracts for the provision of maintenance services for pr

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prisoners: Costs

23 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate she has made of the annual cost to the public purse of people serving imprisonment for public protection sentences.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Crimes of Violence: Prosecutions

27 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have been (a) charged, (b) prosecuted and (c) incarcerated based on information obtained from the Gang Violence Matrix since 2011.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Crimes of Violence: Convictions

27 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of deleting the Gang Violence Matrix on the ability of wrongfully convicted people to appeal their convictions.