Question follow-through · 105949
Sexual Offences: Law Reporting
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what communications and outreach strategies the Department is implementing to inform victims, legal representatives, and support organisations about their eligibility and the future availability of free sentencin
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 14 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 19 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 20 Jan 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what communications and outreach strategies the Department is implementing to inform victims, legal representatives, and support organisations about their eligibility and the future availability of free sentencin
19 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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20 Jan 2026
Answer published
In May 2025, we announced that we would continue to enable victims of rape and other sexual offences, whose cases were heard in the Crown Court, to apply for free transcripts of the sentencing remarks in their case, on an on-going basis. This followed a o...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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