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Sentencing |
| Question ID: |
1790380 |
| UIN: |
42407 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-31 |
| Asking Member ID: |
350 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Sir John Hayes
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Sir John Hayes
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will take steps to override the Sentencing Council's guidance entitled Imposition of community and custodial sentences - Effective from 1 April 2025. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-08 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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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: |
This Government’s position is clear: we are seeking to remove the unequal treatment before the law in these guidelines.In the first instance, the Lord Chancellor used her power under the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 and asked the Sentencing Council to re... |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |