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<p>As at 31 December 2020, there were 3,125 offenders serving a sentence of Imprisonment
for Public Protection (IPP) being supervised in the community by the Probation Service
in England and Wales. For the purposes of providing the information requested, relevant
variables could be matched across the two separate datasets held centrally in only
2,637 of those cases.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Years since<br>
tariff expiry</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of IPP offenders supervised in
the community</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Less than 12 months</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>58</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>80</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>125</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>145</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>230</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>260</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>314</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>361</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>431</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>347</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>196</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,637</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p> </p><p>The figures in this table have been drawn from administrative IT systems
which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with
data entry and processing.</p><p> </p><p>Offenders serving an IPP sentence may be
released into the community once they have completed their tariff only at the discretion
of the Independent Parole Board. Once released, they are managed under licence by
the Probation Service. The IPP licence period differs from licences for other indeterminate
sentences in that, after 10 years from first release by the Parole Board, offenders
can apply to the Board to have the licence terminated. The minimum 10-year period
is not paused or reset if an offender is recalled to prison or serves a subsequent
sentence for further offences.</p>
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