Question follow-through · 36258
Pre-sentence Reports
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure the provision of pre-sentencing reports for all offenders.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 6 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 18 Mar 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure the provision of pre-sentencing reports for all offenders.
10 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Mar 2025
Answer published
Where a court is considering whether an offender should receive a sentence of immediate custody, a pre-sentencing report must be obtained and considered before forming an opinion unless, in the circumstances of the case, it considers that it is unnecessar...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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