HC Deb 12 June 1990 vol 174 cc101-2W
Mr. Pawsey

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has any plans to increase the maximum penalty available to the courts for arson involving damage to property, where no personal injury has occurred.

Mr. John Patten

All offences of arson, whether or not they involve personal injury, already carry a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.

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