| Heading: |
Offences against Children: Sentencing |
| Question ID: |
1795484 |
| UIN: |
46697 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-22 |
| Asking Member ID: |
1576 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mark Pritchard
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| Asking Member handle: |
MPritchardMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@MPritchardMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will ask the Sentencing Council to increase custodial sentences for people convicted of procuring child abuse images. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-30 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4849 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Alex Davies-Jones
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| Answering Member handle: |
AlexDaviesJones
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AlexDaviesJones
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
The maximum sentences available for criminal offences are set by Parliament and, for possession of indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of a child, the maximum sentence is 5 years’ imprisonment. For distributing, making or taking indecent photograph... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |