Question follow-through · 58512
Homicide
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will publish a timeline for the Law Commission of England and Wales’s review of the homicide law.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 9 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 12 Jun 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will publish a timeline for the Law Commission of England and Wales’s review of the homicide law.
12 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Law Commission is independent of Government and responsible for the review of homicide law and sentencing for murder, including publishing their proposed timeline. The Government understands, however, that the Law Commission intends to publish a timel...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Homicide: Sentencing
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