Prisoners: Costs
Commons · Question 26090 · Tabled 23 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Question
Asked by Kim Johnson
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.
Answer
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin, 30 Jan 2025
It is right that the sentence was abolished. The Government is determined to make further progress towards a safe and sustainable release for those serving the IPP sentence, but not in a way that impacts public protection.For 2022/23, the average Overall ...