Found: It has been reported that the upcoming Sentencing Bill will include measures to limit the movement of

Found: The Sentencing Bill was laid before Parliament on 2nd September 2025.

Found: for Justice, to the Chair, Justice and Home Affairs Committee following the introduction of the Sentencing Bill

Found: Q47 Josh Babarinde: I will move on to the next question on the sentencing Bill, whose second reading

Found: Correspondence from Sir Nic Dakin MP, Minister for Sentencing, dated 2 September 2025: Sentencing Bill

Found: Q47 Josh Babarinde: I will move on to the next question on the sentencing Bill, whose second reading

Found: Chair: Can you outline the discussions you have had with the MoJ about the implications of the Sentencing Bill

Found: But clearly, in light of the recent announcements, not least reflected in the Sentencing Bill before

Found: debate during the Committee Stage of Lord Woodley’s Imprisonment for Public Protection (Re-sentencing) Bill

Found: or so, particularly on the sentencing review, because the Government yesterday published the Sentencing Bill

Found: Correspondence from the Lord Chancellor, dated 25 July 2025: Recall and the Sentencing Bill Correspondence

Found: debate during the Committee Stage of Lord Woodley’s Imprisonment for Public Protection (Re-sentencing) Bill

Found: , that is not a counsel of despair, because if you look at the evidence that accompanied the sentencing Bill

Found: A review of evidence. 12 Ministry of Justice (2023) Policy Paper, Sentencing Bill Factsheet: Short Sentences

Found: Correspondence to the Lord Chancellor, dated 8 July 2025 relating to Recall and the Sentencing Bill Correspondence

Found: you come to us in a very busy week for justice, and we are expecting the publication of the sentencing Bill

Found: As a result of what we think will be the changes in the Sentencing Bill, we are going to look at whether

Found: One way is criminalisation as in the Police, Crime and Sentencing Bill of 2022.

Found: assumption that they will have information on that device regarding 8 The Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill

Found: HL Paper 76), para 30; Constitution Committee, Constitution Committee, Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has a target date for acquiring adequate numbers of electronic tags to accommodate the provisions of the Sentencing Bill.

Answered by Jake Richards - Assistant Whip

The Ministry of Justice and His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service are continuing to assess the likely impact of the Sentencing Bill on demand for Electronic Monitoring and will order the required numbers of tags in line with those assessments and contractual requirements.

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many electronic tags his Department has acquired in the context of the Sentencing Bill.

Answered by Jake Richards - Assistant Whip

The Ministry of Justice and His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service are continuing to assess the likely impact of the Sentencing Bill on demand for Electronic Monitoring and will order the required numbers of tags in line with those assessments and contractual requirements.

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Justice Secretary introduces democratic lock over Sentencing Council, published on 2 September 2025, what plans she has for enabling Parliament to (a) scrutinise and (b) influence future Sentencing Council guidelines.

Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)

The Lord Chancellor has brought forward measures in the Sentencing Bill to ensure that there is stronger democratic and judicial oversight of sentencing guidelines the Sentencing Council produces.

The Council will be placed under a statutory obligation to obtain approval from both the Lord Chancellor and Lady Chief Justice for all guidelines. This means that no guidelines can be issued without the Lord Chancellor and Lady Chief Justice each explicitly approving it. The Council will also be required to obtain Lord Chancellor approval of its annual business plan.

The Sentencing Council has an existing statutory obligation to consult with the Justice Select Committee on draft sentencing guidelines, which is unaffected by the measures we are taking forward in the Sentencing Bill.

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Criminals to face football, travel, club and pub bans, published on 23 August 2025, what impact her Department estimates these measures will have on (a) rates of first offence and (b) rates of reoffence.

Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)

Through the Sentencing Bill we will introduce new powers available to the courts when imposing a community or suspended sentence. This will provide courts with greater flexibility than ever before to tailor punishments to offenders and ensure sentences served in the community are not a “soft option” but represent a genuine punishment by restricting offenders’ freedoms.

The four new powers which this Bill includes are:

• Banning offenders from attending public events (including sports events);

• Banning offenders from attending drinking establishments (including pubs, clubs and bars);

• Prohibiting offenders from driving, and

• Requiring an offender to stay within a geographic location (restriction zones).

We believe that these new powers, for example banning criminals from football matches and pubs, will help to deter offending and hammer home that under this Government, crime no longer pays.

The Sentencing Bill seeks to increase the robustness of community sentencing. Evidence suggests that community orders and suspended sentences are more effective than short custodial sentences at reducing reoffending in certain circumstances.

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of community sentencing in reducing reoffending.

Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury

There is evidence that community orders and suspended sentence orders are more effective at reducing reoffending than sentences of immediate custody in certain circumstances.

Robust analysis (using a matched comparison group to account for cohort differences such as drug use and unemployment), found that custodial sentences of less than 12 months were associated with higher reoffending rates (4 percentage points difference) compared to court orders (community or suspended sentence): https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5d1c732ee5274a08cdbe45c4/impact-short-custodial-sentences.pdf.

The Department’s latest published reoffending data (July to September 2023) shows that the one year proven reoffending rate for those on a court order was 34% and 62% for those released from a determinant sentence of less than 12 months: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/proven-reoffending-statistics-july-and-september-2023.

Ministry of Justice research findings indicate that individuals sentenced with a Community Sentence Treatment Requirement reoffend less often compared with those given a short custodial sentence. For example, Mental Health Treatment Requirements recipients had a lower reoffending rate than those on a short custodial sentence recipients by 9 percentage points.

We welcome the Independent Sentencing Review’s emphasis on increasing the use of community sentences for lower-level offenders, ensuring that prisons are focused on locking up the most dangerous offenders.

In the Sentencing Bill, we have introduced new powers to allow the courts to have greater flexibility than ever before to tailor punishments to offenders and ensure sentences served in the community are not a “soft option” but represent a genuine punishment by restricting offenders’ freedoms.

These new powers will include banning offenders from driving, from attending pubs and bars, as well as public events such as sports and concerts. We are also introducing tough new restriction zones that will limit offenders to a specific geographical area.

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she is taking steps to reduce the use of short custodial sentences for non-violent offences.

Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury

In line with the Independent Sentencing Review’s recommendation on reducing the use of short custodial sentences, the Sentencing Bill 2025 introduces a presumption to suspend short custodial sentences of 12 months or less, including for non-violent offences. We are not abolishing short sentences - judges will always have the power to send offenders to prison where they have breached a court order, where there is a significant risk of physical or psychological harm to a particular individual, or in exceptional circumstances.

Evidence shows community orders and suspended sentences can be more effective at reducing reoffending than short custodial sentences. Around 60% of adults jailed for under a year reoffend within 12 months. Ministry of Justice matched cohort research shows offenders released from short prison sentences of less than 12 months reoffend at a higher rate (up to 4pp) than similar offenders given a community or suspended sentence.

Limiting the use of short sentences will not only help offenders to leave the merry-go-round of re-offending but reduce crime, leading to fewer victims and safer communities.

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Found: Sentencing Bill

Found: Sentencing Bill EXPLANATORY NOTES Explanatory notes to the Bill, prepared by the Ministry of Justice

Found: 1 Title: Sentencing Bill Impact Assessment IA No: MoJ030/2025 RPC Reference No: N/A Lead department

Found: 1 SENTENCING BILL 2025 DELEGATED POWERS MEMORANDUM INTRODUCTION 1.

Found: THE SENTENCING BILL 2025 EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS MEMORANDUM SUMMARY OF THE BILL 1.

Found: Bill 299–EN 59/1 SENTENCING BILL EXPLANATORY NOTES What these notes do These Explanatory Notes

Found: Bill 299–EN 59/1 SENTENCING BILL EXPLANATORY NOTES What these notes do These Explanatory Notes

Found: Sentencing Bill [As Introduced] This is an alternative rendering of the standard published version of

Found: Imprisonment for Public Protection (Re-sentencing) Bill [HL] MARSHALLED LIST OF AMENDMENTS TO BE

Found: Imprisonment for Public Protection (Re-sentencing) Bill [HL] RUNNING LIST OF ALL AMENDMENTS IN COMMITTEE

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Found: Can I just very quickly before you go on to other people say that we’ve got this police and sentencing bill

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Found: • Ben Parker from Battersea added that the Animals Welfare (Sentencing) Bill which aims to introduce

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Found: - Sentencing o Chris Loder MP is bringing back the Animal Welfare Sentencing Bill to Parliament

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Found:  Policy update 2 o Five-year sentences for animal Cruelty – the Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill

Found: This announcement follows the introduction of the Sentencing Bill which set out plans to reform sentencing

Found: Change £100m extra investment and new expectation all prisoners will be tagged when leaving jail Sentencing Bill

Found: As part of the Sentencing Bill, introduced in the House of Commons today, both the Justice Secretary

Found: The majority of the recommendations have been accepted today in principle – with a Sentencing Bill due

Found: Sentencing Bill 2025

Found: Sentencing Bill 2025

Found: Sentencing Bill 2025

Found: sentences of less than six months (which was included, and extended to 12 months, in the 2024 Sentencing Bill

Found: As part of the Sentencing Bill, introduced in the House of Commons today, both the Justice Secretary

Found: , as the Board adapts to incorporate the changes to the sentencing framework expected in the Sentencing Bill