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Prisons Minister response to IAPDC – IPP prisoners

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Response from Prisons Minister - IPP prisoners (March 2024) (PDF, 168.2 KB)

Letter from Rt Hon Ed Argar MP, Minister of State for Prisons, Parole and Probation, in response to a letter from Lynn Emslie, Chair of the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody, about an amendment to the Victims and Prisoners Bill to alter the release test applied by the Parole Board for prisoners serving an IPP sentence.