Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2020 to Question 121209, what estimate his Department has made of the number of prisoners who will be serving a sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection in (a) custody and (b) the recall population in (i) September 2021, (ii) September 2022, (iii) September 2023, (iv) September 2024, (v) September 2025 and (vi) September 2026.
Answered on
15 December 2020
The Government published the ‘Prison Population Projections: 2020 to 2026’ in November 2020. The projections of unreleased and recalled prisoners serving Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences are as follows:
Sep-21 | Sep-22 | Sep-23 | Sep-24 | Sep-25 | Sep-26 | |
Unreleased IPP | 1,700 | 1,500 | 1,300 | 1,100 | 900 | 800 |
Recalled IPP | 1,700 | 2,000 | 2,200 | 2,300 | 2,500 | 2,600 |