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
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
10 Mar 2025
Target answer date
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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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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