Question follow-through · 92534
Driving under Influence: Sentencing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of utilising alcohol interlock technology as part of judicial sentencing criteria.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 19 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 27 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of utilising alcohol interlock technology as part of judicial sentencing criteria.
24 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Nov 2025
Answer published
We believe that the courts should have the flexibility they need to sentence offenders appropriately and, as part of a community or suspended sentence the courts have a range of robust powers to punish and rehabilitate offenders and protect the public. Th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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