Recently-published statistics show that the IPP Action Plan – launched in November 2024 – has not led to any significant improvements for those IPP prisoners still in custody.  

The data shows that 1,742 people had their licence automatically terminated on 1 November 2024, reducing the number of people serving an IPP sentence in the community from 2,885 to 1,376. However, changes in the law have had next to no impact on the 1,012 IPP prisoners still in custody. (Throughout 2024, just 172 were released from their IPP sentence for the first time – despite the fact that almost all remaining IPP prisoners have served longer than their tariff.)

The campaign group ‘IPP Committee in Action’ has now called for a judicial review of the IPP Action Plan, which it calls ineffective, failing to have had any meaningful impact in ending the sentence and perpetuating unlawful, arbitrary detention.

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