Question follow-through · 77790
Aiding and Abetting: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress he has made on improving data on joint enterprise cases.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 16 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 13 Oct 2025 · 27 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress he has made on improving data on joint enterprise cases.
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Oct 2025
Answer published
Joint enterprise is not a specific criminal offence. It is a common law doctrine which can apply in situations where two or more individuals have a common purpose to commit any criminal offence.The Ministry of Justice currently collects information on how...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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