Question follow-through · 4854
Prisoners' Release: Domestic Abuse and Sexual Offences
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact on victims of SDS40 applying to sentences being served concurrently with sentences of sexual or domestic abuse.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 17 Sept 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Justice and policing
- Domestic Abuse: Criminal Proceedings · 28 Oct 2024
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact on victims of SDS40 applying to sentences being served concurrently with sentences of sexual or domestic abuse.
11 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Sept 2024
Answer published
Offenders’ eligibility for SDS40 is determined by each specific sentence. Release provisions for different sentence types and length are fixed by law. This change has amended the automatic release point for standard determinate sentences that are not excl...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Domestic Abuse: Administration of Justice
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