PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Wandsworth Prison: Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients (1 May 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners at HMP Wandsworth are serving (a) Imprisonment for Public Protection and (b) Detention for Public Protection sentences.

Asked by:
Fleur Anderson (Labour)

The number and proportion of prisoners in HMP Wandsworth serving Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) and Detention for Public Protection sentences (DPP), as at 31 March 2024, are set out in the table below.

Sentence type	Number of prisoners	Proportion of the total population at HMP Wandsworth
IPP	10	0.7%
DPP	0	-

Please note:

(1) IPP prisoners include both unreleased IPP prisoners and recalled IPP prisoners.

(2) DPP is the youth equivalent of the IPP sentence, given to those aged under 18 at the time of conviction.

(3) 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.

We have taken significant action through the Victims and Prisoners Bill to curtail IPP and DPP 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, including those serving DPP sentences, who have never been released now stands at 1,180 as of March 2024, down from more than 6000 in 2012.

Answered by:
Edward Argar (Conservative)
13 May 2024