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The total number of those listed above is slightly less than the IPPs received into custody as the tariff has to be recalculated and confirmed by the Public Protection Casework Section following receipt of the trial judge sentencing remarks. The time taken to carry out this process means that a number of recently sentenced IPPs are therefore not included in the above table.

From 14 July 2008 the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 brought in changes to the sentencing framework for IPP sentences, to ensure that they are focused where they can be most effective in protecting the public: on the most serious offenders. The amendments introduced a minimum tariff of two years below which IPPs cannot be given except where offenders have committed extremely serious crimes in the past.

The figures in the following table were taken on 24 April 2009 from the NOMS IPP database, referred to above, and include the same prisoner groups previously mentioned. The table gives the cumulative numbers of prisoners who were beyond tariff at the end of each month since the introduction of the IPP sentence. As the NOMS IPP database captures data on current IPPs only, these figures do not include IPPs who have already been discharged.

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	200 5	2006	2007	2008	2009
January	n/a	4	84	551	1,456
February	n/a	6	102	592	1,550
March	n/a	8	126	648	1,621
April	0	11	148	712	1,711
May	0	14	183	793	n/a
June	0	16	224	867	n/a
July	0	21	259	931	n/a
August	0	31	305	1,017	n/a
September	0	33	351	1,093	n/a
October	0	40	395	1,168	n/a
November	2	51	442	1,266	n/a
December	3	64	497	1,363	n/a

The average tariff of those who were released was one year and 134 days. These figures have been drawn
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from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.

The information requested to answer how many indeterminate sentences for public protection have been handed down for each type of offence in each month since their introduction is shown in the following tables.

Month/offence	Arson	G BH wounding, assault, ABH , etc.	Robbery, aggravated burglary, etc.	Possession of a firearm	Sexual offences	Threats to kill
May 2005	—	—	3	—	1	—
June 2005	1	3	6	—	1	—
July 2005	1	4	18	—	4	—
August 2005	6	13	19	—	4	1
September 2005	2	13	42	—	14	3
October 2005	7	25	36	2	11	3
November 2005	1	14	40	3	20	1
December 2005	8	19	22	3	14	—
January 2006	7	17	29	5	19	—
February 2006	4	26	45	2	22	2
March 2006	5	54	43	5	23	4
April 2006	5	23	32	7	22	3
May 2006	10	35	25	4	23	4
June 2006	14	42	46	6	32	—
July 2006	11	41	39	6	28	2
August 2006	1	35	36	6	23	—
September 2006	7	36	38	8	33	6
October 2006	6	30	31	6	26	3
November 2006	13	53	48	6	29	4
December 2006	9	39	54	4	40	6
January 2007	8	31	42	7	39	2
February 2007	9	38	35	3	37	1
March 2007	15	52	45	6	35	5
April 2007	8	36	29	2	36	4
May 2007	8	51	36	1	37	—
June 2007	11	39	34	10	38	6
July 2007	5	47	36	5	39	6
August 2007	4	26	30	4	35	1
September 2007	4	41	41	5	43	4
October 2007	8	34	40	5	28	3
November 2007	—	57	43	4	40	4
December 2007	5	39	38	3	32	2
January 2008	7	35	50	—	35	2
February 2008	7	46	50	4	46	6
March 2008	6	39	21	5	40	2
April 2008	12	43	26	7	39	3
May 2008	9	33	34	9	44	1
June 2008	4	30	36	4	42	2
July 2008	4	25	14	1	32	1
August 2008	—	17	16	1	14	2
September 2008	5	22	19	1	21	2
October 2008	6	18	21	2	27	6
November 2008	6	20	15	—	21	1
December 2008	5	19	24	4	14	—

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