Question follow-through · 44110
Criminal Liability
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans her Department has to review the use of automatism as a legal defence.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 3 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 8 Apr 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans her Department has to review the use of automatism as a legal defence.
8 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Apr 2025
Answer published
There are no current plans for the Government to review the defence of automatism.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Family Proceedings: Expert Evidence
11 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of updating the level of remuneration for expert witnesses in family cases.
Terrorism
19 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the report on the Southport attack by the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a new offence of planning a mass