Question follow-through · 68360
Administration of Justice
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to ensure that dynamic alignment with EU law does not undermine UK judicial independence.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 16 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 25 Jul 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
16 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to ensure that dynamic alignment with EU law does not undermine UK judicial independence.
21 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jul 2025
Answer published
As outlined in the Common Understanding from the UK-EU Summit, the UK will have a joint role in shaping any new rules governing our relationship with the EU. In specific areas this will mean aligning our shared obligations to facilitate better trade and i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Prisoners' Release
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Prisons: Crimes of Violence
10 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken work with relevant authorities to reduce instances of violent crime in prisons.
Cannabis: Prison Sentences
13 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been imprisoned for growing cannabis in every year since 2010.
Cannabis: Prison Sentences
13 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been imprisoned for supplying cannabis in every year since 2010.
Cocaine: Prison Sentences
13 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been imprisoned for supplying cocaine in every year since 2010.
Prisons: Crime
9 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she has taken to reduce the commission of crime in English prisons.
British Overseas Territories: Prisoners
14 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what standards and safeguards apply to the treatment of prisoners in British Overseas Territories; and what assessment he has made of whether those standards are equivalent to those applied to prisoners in the UK
Prisoners: Montserrat
14 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has received reports regarding the treatment of disabled or seriously ill prisoners in Montserrat.
Repossession Orders
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