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Asked if the Justice Secretary’s comments that there would be no new legislation around self defence were accurate, the PMS said the objective was that home owners and shop keepers who use reasonable force to defend themselves or their property should not be prosecuted, but that how we meet the objective, whether by a change in legislation or guidelines, is to be decided. The PMS said that the important thing was to meet the objective.

Asked if the rights to defend property that exists in common law would be moved to statutory law, the PMS said that the PM had laid out the objective and that the Government was looking at how best to achieve it.

Asked if the Justice’s Secretary’s comments that IPPs would be repealed were accurate, the PMS said that they were being reviewed with a view to replacing them with tough determinate sentences.

Asked if the PM was content that the Justice Secretary had decided the conclusion to the review of IPPs, the PMS said that the review was ongoing. He explained that there was a lack of clarity in the current system, that there were very different outcomes in different cases, and that the judiciary had raised this as an issue. In response the Government was reviewing the system with a view to replacing it, but it would listen to the full range of arguments during the review.

Asked why the Government wanted to get rid of IPPs when the reoffending rate was as low as 5%, the PMS said the Government was looking at a range of ways to cut reoffending.

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