Question follow-through · 23244
Demonstrations: Sentencing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of revising sentencing guidelines to protect the right to protest.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 10 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of revising sentencing guidelines to protect the right to protest.
16 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2025
Answer published
The right to peacefully protest is a cornerstone of our democracy. It is a long-standing tradition in this country that people are able to gather together and to express a point of view, provided that they do so within the law. The Government is fully com...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Family Courts
11 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to reform the family court.
HMP Bullingdon: Security
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Youth Justice
7 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of staff turnover and changes of allocated workers on continuity of support and reoffending, and whether this will be measured under the new youth justice stand