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<p>HM Prison and Probation Service is using existing resources to deliver the requirements
of the IPP Action Plan, ensuring that it is used to best effect to support those serving
IPP sentences to achieve their sentence plan objectives and reduce their risks. HMPPS
does not allocate funding in such a way as it would be possible to disaggregate specific
amounts dedicated to sentence planning, offender management and support for IPP offenders.</p><p>Unto
that end, the Action Plan focuses on ensuring offenders can access the required services
or interventions in order to take positive steps towards a future release, a sustainable
life in the community and, ultimately, the end of their sentence altogether. Further,
when it comes to those serving the IPP sentence in prison, the Action Plan requires
that they have an up to date sentence plan and are held in a prison which provides
the intervention(s) specified in the sentence plan. It is expected that the latest
IPP Annual Report and Action Plan will be published in mid-May.</p><p>We have taken
significant action through the Victims and Prisoners Bill to curtail IPP licence periods
to give offenders the opportunity to move on with their lives. In addition to these
changes, the actions this Government is taking are working; the number of prisoners
serving the IPP sentence who have never been released now stands at 1,180 as of 31
March 2024, down from more than 6,000 in 2012.</p><p> </p>
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