§ Mr. OnslowTo ask the Attorney-General if he will list the particular types of offence on which the Lord Chancellor, as president of the Magistrates' Association, has expressed his personal view on the approach to sentencing since 1979.
§ The Attorney-GeneralThe types of offence on which the Lord Chancellor, as president of the Magistrates' Association, has expressed his personal views on the approach to sentencing since 1979 include hooliganism and violence to the disruption of the public peace, cruelty or violence to the person, offences against those who serve the public, for example, the police, postmasters, transport staff and licensees, profit-related offences, theft from shops, badger digging, public health, safety of employees or public, pollution, the overloading of commercial vehicles, driving with defective tyres, brakes or steering, and road traffic offences generally.