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PARLIAMENTARY ARCHIVE
Here, you can read the parliamentary activity that has taken place regarding the IPP sentence.
2024
JANUARY
Amendments in Committee of the whole house - HERE
Reoffenders - HERE
Clause 25 - Transfers of prisoners to foreign prisons: introduction - HERE
Parole: Reviews - HERE
Prisoners - HERE
Prisoners' Release: Health - HERE
Prisoners' Release - HERE
Imprisonment for Public Protection - Question - HERE
Reoffenders - HERE
Prisoners: Death - HERE
Prisons: Suicides - Question - HERE
Prisons: Suicide - Questioeoffende
FEBRUARY
Prison Sentences: Wales - HERE
Current Affairs Digest: Law (February 2024) - HERE
Prisoners: Death - HERE
Employment of People with Criminal Convictions - Question - HERE
Prisoners' Release - HERE
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MARCH
Prisons: Overcrowding - HERE
Amendment 149 - HERE
Reoffenders - HERE
Prisoners - HERE
Prisons: Overcrowding - HERE
APRIL
Indeterminate Sentences - Question - HERE
Prison sentences - HERE
Prison Sentences - HERE
MAY
House of Lords debate. Victims and prisoners bill - HERE
End of Custody Supervised Licence Scheme: Extension - Commons Urgent Question - HERE
Wandsworth Prison: Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients - HERE
Prison Sentences - HERE
Prisoners' Release - HERE
Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients - HERE
Offenders: Suicide - HERE
Wandsworth Prison - HERE
2023
JANUARY
TOPICAL QUESTIONS: RESPONSE TO THE JSC INQUIRY: MP PAULA BARKER - READ HERE
REOFFENDERS: MP JO STEVENS - READ HERE
FUTURE OF THE PAROLE BOARD: CROSS PARTY DEBATE - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: LORD BRADLEY - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: LORD BRADLEY - READ HERE
SENTENCING: LORD SMITH OF FINSBURY - READ HERE
REOFFENDERS: LORD BRADLEY - READ HERE
ORAL EVIDENCE TO JSC: THE WORK OF THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE - READ HERE
PRISONERS: IMPRISONMENT FOR PUBLIC PROTECTION: CROSS PARTY - READ HERE
FEBRUARY
PRISONS' RELEASE: LORD BRADLEY - READ HERE
JUSTICE COMMITTEE: THE PRISON OPERATIONAL WORKFORCE - READ HERE
MARCH
PRISONERS: REVIEW IPP SENTENCES: LORD HYLTON - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: MP KIM JOHNSON - READ HERE
MINISTRY OF JUSTICE ORAL EVIDENCE SESSION: CROSS PARTY - READ HERE
SENTENCES OF IMPRISONMENT FOR PUBLIC PROTECTION: MP JESSICA MORDEN - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: LORD MOYLAN - READ HERE
NEW CLAUSE 1 - GUIDANCE: IPP RAISED AS AN ISSUE: MP CHRISTOPHER CHOPE - READ HERE
SECRETARY OF STATES FORMAL RESPONSE TO THE JSC RECOMMENDATIONS: MP DOMINIC RAAB - READ HERE
APRIL
IMPRISONMENT FOR PUBLIC PROTECTION SENTENCES. DEBATE: MP SIR ROBERT NEILL - READ HERE
PRISONERS: PASTORAL CARE: THE BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER - READ HERE
MAY
PAROLE BOARD RECOMMENDATIONS: OPEN CONDITIONS - QUESTION: CROSS PARTY - READ HERE
VICTIMS AND PRISONERS BILL: CROSS PARTY - READ HERE
JUNE
MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE - QUESTION: CROSS PARTY - READ HERE
IMPRISONMENT FOR PUBLIC PROTECTION SENTENCES: MP CHI ONWURAH - READ HERE
PRISONERS' RELEASE: MP CHI ONWURAH - READ HERE
JULY
HIS MAJESTY’S PRISON AND PROBATION SERVICE: CROSS PARTY - READ HERE
OFFENDERS: DEPORTATION: MP DAVID EVENNETT - READ HERE
SEPTEMBER
TOPICAL QUESTIONS: MP KATE HOLLERN - READ HERE
OCTOBER
CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT 2003 (REMOVAL OF PRISONERS FOR DEPORTATION) ORDER 2023 - MOTION TO APPROVE: LORD DHOLAKIA - READ HERE
PRISON OFFICERS: TRAINING: LORD BLUNKETT - READ HERE
PRISON' RELEASES: REOFFENDERS: MP GREGORY CAMPBELL - READ HERE
PRISONERS' RELEASE: MP KEVIN BRENNAN - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: CAPACITY: MP RACHAEL MASKELL - READ HERE
VICTIMS AND PRISONERS BILL AMENDMENT NC1: MP SIR ROBERT NEILL - READ HERE
THE GOVERNMENT'S APPROACH TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE: MP ALEX CHALK - READ HERE
PRISON CAPACITY: STATEMENT: CROSS PARTY - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: TARIFF LENGTH, DEATHS, SECURE HOSPITAL MOVES AND TERS: LORD WOODLEY - READ HERE
NOVEMBER
VICTIMS AND PRISONERS BILL , (AMENDMENT PAPER) - READ HERE
PRISONERS: DEATH: LORD MOYLAN - READ HERE
PRISONERS' RELEASE: LORD MOYLAN - READ HERE
COMPULSORILY DETAINED PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS: DEATH: LORD BLUNKETT - READ HERE
PRISONERS: SELF-HARM: LORD MOYLAN - READ HERE
HOMICIDE: REOFFENDERS: MP SARAH OWEN - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: ACTION PLAN: MP RUTH CADBURY - READ HERE
PRISON ACCOMMODATION: MP NADREA JENKYNS - READ HERE
VIOLENCE REDUCTION, POLICING AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE: MP SIR ROBERT NEILL - READ HERE
KING’S SPEECH - DEBATE (2ND DAY): CROSS PARTY - READ HERE
DECEMBER
COMPULSORILY DETAINED PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS: DEATH: LORD BLUNKETT - READ HERE
HOMICIDE: OFFENDERS: MP SARAH JONES - READ HERE
VICTIMS AND PRISONERS BILL - SECOND READING: CROSS PARTY - READ HERE
EXAMINATION OF WITNESS: CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL: MARK FAIRHURST - READ HERE
PROBATION: MP GREGORY CAMPBELL - READ HERE
PRISONERS: REVIEWS - RECALL: LORD BLUNKETT - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES - OVER TARIFF: LORD MOYLAN - READ HERE
VICTIMS AND PRISONERS BILL: MP SIR ROBERT NEILL - READ HERE
2022
JANUARY
THE LORD ATKIN LECTURE: THE REFORM CLUB “PRISONS FOR A PURPOSE: REFORMING OUR BROKEN PRISON SYSTEM" - READ HERE
AMENDMENT 3: POLICE, CRIME, SENTENCING AND COURTS BILL - THIRD READING - READ HERE
JUSTICE SELECT COMMITTEE IPP INQUIRY WRITTEN EVIDENCE FROM:
UNGRIPP - READ HERE
APPEAL - READ HERE
DR DAVID PEPLOW - READ HERE
DR HARRY ANNISON - READ HERE
EMMERSONS SOLICITORS LTD (NORTH EAST)- READ HERE
FARRHAT ARSHAD & PATRICK O'CONNOR QC. DOUGHTY STREET CHAMBERS - READ HERE
GROUP OF 'PSY' PROFESSIONALS - READ HERE
HOWARD LEAGUE FOR PENAL REFORM - READ HERE
INDEPENDENT ADVISORY PANEL ON DEATHS IN CUSTODY - READ HERE
INDEPENDENT MONITORING BOARDS - READ HERE
INQUEST - READ HERE
LORD DAVID BLUNKETT - READ HERE
NAPO - READ HERE
PRISONERS' ADVICE SERVICE - READ HERE
PRISON REFORM TRUST - READ HERE
PRISON AND PROBATION OMBUDSMAN (PPO) - READ HERE
PROBATION OFFICER - READ HERE
PROFESSOR GRAHAM TOWL - READ HERE
PROFESSOR NICK HARDWICK - READ HERE
PROGRESSING PRISONERS MAINTAINING INNOCENCE - READ HERE
SENTENCING ACADEMY - READ HERE
THE ASSOCIATION OF PRISON LAWYERS - READ HERE
THE CENTRE FOR CRIME AND JUSTICE STUDIES - READ HERE
THE INSTITUTE OF NOW - READ HERE
THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE - READ HERE
THE PAROLE BOARD FOR ENGLAND AND WALES - READ HERE
WOMEN IN PRISON - READ HERE
FEBRUARY
PRISONERS - READ HERE
PRISONERS: DEATHS - READ HERE
MARCH
PRISONS: DEATH STATISTICS - QUESTIONS: LORD BROWN OF EATON-UNDER-HEYWOOD - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: QUESTIONS REGARDING RECALL - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: QUESTION REGARDING THE GOVERNMENTS PLANS TO REVIEW THE IPP SENTENCE - READ HERE
APRIL
PRISONERS: A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS FROM MP KERRY MCCARTHY - READ HERE
PRISONERS: SELF-HARM AND SUICIDE - READ HERE
PRISONERS' RELEASE - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: RESENTENCING QUESTION - READ HERE
PRISONER SENTENCES: QUESTION REGARDING LICENCE CONDITIONS - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: QUESTION REGARDING PROBATION - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: QUESTION REGARDING PROBATION - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT QUESTIONS FROM LORD BLUNKETT - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT QUESTIONS FROM LADY BURT OF SOLIHULL - READ HERE
PRISONERS: REHABILITATION. COURSE WAITING LIST QUESTION - READ HERE
PRISONERS: REHABILITATION. ACCREDITED OFFENDER BEHAVIOUR PROGRAMME QUESTION - READ HERE
PRISONERS: REHABILITATION. ADDITIONAL OFFENDER BEHAVIOUR PROGRAMME QUESTION - READ HERE
PAROLE - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: WRITTEN QUESTIONS. A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT QUESTIONS - READ HERE
PRISONERS: REHABILITATION: QUESTIONS REGARDING COURSES - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: QUESTIONS REGARDING OPEN CONDITIONS - READ HERE
MAY
SPEECH: NORTHERN IRELAND PROTOCOL: LORD MOYLAN 1:10-1:30 - WATCH HERE
QUEENS SPEECH DEBATE (3RD DAY): LORD BROWN OF EATON-UNDER-HEYWOOD - READ HERE
PREVENTING CRIME AND DELIVERING JUSTICE: STATEMENT BY MP JAMES SUNDERLAND - READ HERE
JUNE
OPEN PRISONS: PRISONERS' TRANSFERS - READ HERE
PRISONS: REPATRIATION - READ HERE
PROBATION AND COURTS SERVICES: WORKLOAD QUESTION - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: RESENTENCING QUESTION - READ HERE
BILL OF RIGHTS: PAROLE CHANGES - READ HERE
CRIME, REOFFENDING AND REHABILITATION: MOTION TO TAKE NOTE - READ HERE
JULY
LIFE IMPRISONMENT: AGE AND TARIFF QUESTION - READ HERE
OCTOBER
QUESTION FOR SHORT DEBATE: STATEMENTS FROM A NUMBER OF LORDS - WATCH HERE
PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS: MP JAMES DALY - WATCH HERE
ORAL QUESTIONS: MP NADIA WHITTMORE - WATCH HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: THE BISHOP OF SOUTHWARK - READ HERE
PRISON RELEASES: LORD MOYLAN - READ HERE
NOVEMBER
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE: MP KIM JOHNSON REQUESTING A COMMONS DEBATE - READ HERE
PRISONER RELEASES: LORD MOYLAN - READ HERE
PRISON CAPACITY: MP JAMES DALY - READ HERE
TOPICAL QUESTIONS: MP MARY GLINDON - READ HERE
DECEMBER
PRISONERS: LORD BRADLEY - READ HERE
PRISONERS' RELEASE: FOREIGN NATIONALS: LORD MOYLAN - READ HERE
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE: MP JAMES DALY - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: LORD MOYLAN - READ HERE
2021
JUSTICE SELECT IPP INQUIRY. THIRD ORAL HEARING SESSION - WATCH HERE
JUSTICE SELECT IPP INQUIRY. SECOND ORAL HEARING SESSION - WATCH HERE
JUSTICE SELECT IPP INQUIRY. FIRST ORAL HEARING SESSION - WATCH HERE
POLICE, CRIME, SENTENCING AND COURTS BILL: REPORT 3RD DAY - READ HERE WATCH HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: QUESTIONS ABOUT THE NUMBER OF LICENCE REVIEWS - READ HERE
POLICE, CRIME, SENTENCING AND COURTS BILL - COMMITTEE 8TH DAY - READ HERE
PRISONERS: REHABILITATION, COURSE WAITING TIMES - READ HERE
POLICE, CRIME, SENTENCING AND COURTS BILL: 2ND READING - WATCH HERE
PRISONERS RELEASE: ETHNICITY AND GENDER - READ HERE
PRISONERS: QUESTIONS ABOUT RELEASE, RECALL AND LICENCE - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: NUMBER OF PEOPLE SUPERVISED IN THE COMMUNITY - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: WHAT ASSESSMENT WAS MADE FOR THOSE GIVEN THE SENTENCE PRIOR TO 2012 - READ HERE
PRISONERS: REHABILITATION - READ HERE
LIFE IMPRISONMENT: PRISONERS RELEASE - READ HERE
POLICE, CRIME, SENTENCING AND COURTS BILL – IN A PUBLIC BILL COMMITTEE - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: QUESTIONS ABOUT OVER TARIFF, ETHNICITY, CAT A AND CAT B - READ HERE
QUEENS SPEECH DEBATE (5TH DAY) - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: QUESTIONS ABOUT CHANGING THE IPP SENTENCE - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: NUMBER OF IPP SENTENCES GIVEN OUT BETWEEN 2009 - 2012 - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: RECALL - READ HERE
2020
SENTENCING BILL (HOUSE OF LORDS) SECOND READING - READ HERE
PRISONERS' RELEASE: CORONAVIRUS - READ HERE
ROYAL COMMISSION ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE - READ HERE
PUBLIC PROTECTION SENTENCES: BAME BACKGROUNDS - READ HERE
MINISTRY OF JUSTICE: WRITTEN QUESTIONS - READ HERE
SENTENCING: BIRMINGHAM - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: ABOLITION OF IPP SENTENCES - READ HERE
PRISON SENTENCES: ESTIMATION ON NUMBER OF IPP'S IN PRISON FROM 2021-2026 - READ HERE
2019
MINISTRY OF JUSTICE: DEPARTMENTAL UPDATE - READ HERE
MENTALLY DISORDERED OFFENDERS - READ HERE
IMPRISONMENT FOR PUBLIC PROTECTION: CROSS-PARTY DEBATE - READ HERE
IMPRISONMENT FOR PUBLIC PROTECTION – DEBATE - WATCH HERE
TOPICAL QUESTIONS: POST-TARIFF IPPS - READ HERE
IMPRISONMENT FOR PUBLIC PROTECTION - READ HERE
HOUSE OF COMMONS EVENT: IPP SENTENCED WOMEN - READ HERE
RECALL OF IPP SENTENCED WOMEN TO PRISONS - READ HERE
PRISONS: EDUCATION - READ HERE
PRISONERS: SELF-HARM - READ HERE
PRISONS: EDUCATION - READ HERE
PRISONERS: DEATH - READ HERE
PRISONERS: RELEASE - READ HERE
2018
PRISONERS: IMPRISONMENT FOR PUBLIC PROTECTION SENTENCES - READ HERE
JUSTICE SELECT COMMITTEE: QUESTIONS TO THE PAROLE BOARD - WATCH HERE
NATIONAL PROBATION SERVICE REVIEW: IMPACT ON IPP SENTENCED PRISONERS - READ HERE
2017
HOUSE OF LORDS: PRISONS: OVERCROWDING- IMPACT ON IPP SENTENCED PRISONERS - READ HERE
HOUSE OF LORDS: CHANGING THE RELEASE TEST FOR IPP PRISONERS - READ HERE
PRISONS AND COURTS BILL (FOURTH SITTING) - READ HERE
IMPRISONMENT FOR PUBLIC PROTECTION SENTENCES: HOW MANY ARE TWICE OVER TARIFF - READ HERE
HOUSE OF LORDS: IPP PRISONERS - QUESTION - READ HERE
2016
LONGFORD LECTURE MICHAEL GOVE: PROPOSING THE RELEASE OF 500 IPP SENTENCED PRISONERS - READ HERE
PRISONS: SAFETY AND SECURITY - READ HERE
SERIOUS DISTURBANCE AT HM PRISON BIRMINGHAM - READ HERE
TOPICAL QUESTIONS: MINISTRY OF JUSTICE TASKFORCE ON IPP - READ HERE
PRISONERS: INDETERMINATE TERMS - READ HERE
IMPRISONMENT FOR PUBLIC PROTECTION SENTENCES: RELEASING POST TARIFF IPP SENTENCED PRISONERS - READ HERE
QUEENS SPEECH DEBATE (4TH DAY) - READ HERE
PRISONERS: FOREIGN NATIONALS - READ HERE
2014
EARLY DAY MOTION: INDETERMINATE SENTENCE FOR PUBLIC PROTECTION - READ HERE
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