Question follow-through · 19857
Domestic Abuse and Sexual Offences: Sentencing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his department's policy to raise mandatory sentences of a) sex offences and b) domestic violence offences.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his department's policy to raise mandatory sentences of a) sex offences and b) domestic violence offences.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Sept 2026
Answer published
We have a comprehensive framework of offences to deal with a range of sexual and domestic abuse offending, supported by robust maximum penalties, including life imprisonment for the most serious offences. These penalties reflect the gravity with which suc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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