Ministry of Justice · custody type: Imprisonment for public protection (IPP)
Prison population: Imprisonment for public protection (IPP)
at 30 June 2026
856people
Prison population for Imprisonment for public protection (IPP) was 856 people at 30 June 2026, down 1.4% (12) on the period before.
- Ministry of Justice dataset
- Table_1_Q_2
- Sex=Male and female; Age group=All ages; Custody type=Imprisonment for public protection (IPP)
- column “30 June 2026”
- 856 per period
- published 30 July 2026
June 2025 to June 2026
What this measures
The prison population of England and Wales at the end of each month, split by custody type as the Ministry of Justice publishes it, that is remand status (untried, convicted unsentenced), determinate sentence length band, extended, IPP and life sentences, recalls, fine defaulters and non-criminal prisoners.
Time served or time left to serve; sentence length is the length imposed by the court.
Source
- Dataset
- Offender management statistics quarterly: prison population
- Release
- Prison population as at 30 June 2026, published 30 July 2026 · sha256 9f832c04e75831f8…
- All values
- Prison population by custody type