Question follow-through · 36023

Sentencing: Minority Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Sentencing Council's publication entitled Comprehensive new guidance on imposing community and custodial sentences, published on 5 March 2025, if she will provide examples that would constit

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
5 Mar 2025
Target answer date
10 Mar 2025
Answer
17 Mar 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 5 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Sentencing Council's publication entitled Comprehensive new guidance on imposing community and custodial sentences, published on 5 March 2025, if she will provide examples that would constit

  2. 10 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The Sentencing Council has issued new guidance which the last Government was consulted on between November 2023 and February 2024, and then publicly welcomed.The Lord Chancellor has been clear that these guidelines do not represent the views of this Gover...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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