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Social Media: Crime |
| Question ID: |
1757447 |
| UIN: |
25440 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-21 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5158 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Rupert Lowe
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Rupert Lowe
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a review of sentences for people serving a custodial sentence for posting offensive remarks on social media. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-01-29 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4056 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Nicholas Dakin
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Sir Nicholas Dakin
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| Answer text: |
Sentencing in individual cases is a matter for our independent courts. There are a range of communication related offences, both summary-only and triable either way, across different pieces of legislation with varying maximum penalties. For example, secti... |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |