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<p>It falls to the Parole Board to determine whether the statutory release test is
met when it reviews the case of a prisoner serving an indeterminate sentence of imprisonment
for public protection (IPP) and the prisoner has served in full the minimum term of
imprisonment, set by the Court for the purposes of retribution and deterrence. Therefore,
those serving an IPP sentence will only be released where the Board assesses that
they may be safely managed in the community on licence and supervised by the Probation
Service. We have already reduced the number of IPP prisoners by three-quarters since
we scrapped the sentence in 2012, and we continue to help those still in custody to
progress towards release.</p><p>The table below provides the breakdown of those prisoners
who have served 5 ,10, and 15 years over their original tariff, correct as at 30 June
this year.</p><p><strong>Table 1. Tariff-expired unreleased IPP prisoner population</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Time
over tariff</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5
years or more</p></td><td><p>1,140</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10 years or more</p></td><td><p>662</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15
years or more</p></td><td><p>67</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>1. Tariff length is
the time between date of sentence and tariff expiry date and does not take into account
any time served on remand.</p><p>2. Rows do not include the total from the preceding
row</p><p>3. Figures include only unreleased IPP population.</p><p> </p><p>The tables
below provide a breakdown of the number of prisoners who have died, been transferred
to secure hospitals under the Mental Health Act 1983, or have been approved for removal
to another country under Tariff-Expired Removal Scheme (TERS) in the past 10 years.</p><p>The
Ministry of Justice processes applications for transfer to another country under TERS;
however, it does not manage or routinely record the actual removals of offenders,
which is the responsibility of the Home Office. As a result, we have provided in Table
4 the number of approved applications for transfer under TERS.</p><p><strong>Table
2. Number of deaths of IPP prisoners, 2013-2022</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Count</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>4.
Figures include death by homicide, natural causes, self-inflicted and other/non-natural
for the unreleased and recalled IPP population.</p><p>5. Figures are derived from
the HMPPS Deaths in Prison Custody database. As classification of deaths may change
following inquest or as new information emerges, numbers may change from time to time.</p><p>6.
Figures include incidents at HMPPS run Immigration Removal Centres and during contracted
out escorts.</p><p>7. Figures do not include incidents at Medway STC. For more information
on Secure Training Centres, please see Youth justice annual statistics at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/youth-justice-annual-statistics"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/youth-justice-annual-statistics</a>.</p><p>
</p><p><strong>Table 3. Number of IPP offenders transferred from prison to secure
hospital under section 47 of the Mental Health Act, 2013-2022</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Count</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>87</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>86</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>59</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>63</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>59</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>54</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>44</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>8.
Mentally disordered offenders can be transferred to psychiatric hospital for treatment
and can be kept in varying levels of security (including to psychiatric intensive
care units, which are not categorised as ‘secure’). These figures show MHA transfers
to secure units. Figures may contain duplicates as an offender can be transferred
more than once across the years. However, within each year, only one transfer for
an offender is counted.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 4. Approvals for transfer of IPP
offenders to another country under the Tariff-Expired Removal Scheme, 2013-2022</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Approvals</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>63</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>51</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>33</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>9.
Figures provided relate to the number of approvals of TERS applications in each of
the last 10 years. The number of approvals may not match the number of actual removals.</p><p>Note:</p><p>Every
effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However,
it is important to note that this data has been extracted from large administrative
data systems generated by HM Prison & Probation Service. Consequently, care should
be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are
taken into account when those data are used.</p>
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