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25 Jun 2025, 1:41 p.m. - House of Commons
"seeing the detail of how the commendations will be implemented. In the forthcoming Sentencing Bill. "
Andy Slaughter MP (Hammersmith and Chiswick, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
25 Jun 2025, 1:44 p.m. - House of Commons
"result from the Sentencing Bill. The "
Andy Slaughter MP (Hammersmith and Chiswick, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
3 Jun 2025, 12:32 p.m. - House of Commons
"zones for offenders and we will bring forward our proposals in the Sentencing Bill. >> Rural communities often find it "
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3 Jun 2025, 11:55 a.m. - House of Commons
"principle. I look forward to working with him and other colleagues with the upcoming Sentencing Bill. the upcoming Sentencing Bill. "
Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood KC MP, The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Birmingham Ladywood, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
2 Sep 2025, 2:39 p.m. - House of Commons
">> Sentencing Bill. >> Reading Second Reading what day? >> Tomorrow. "
Presentation of Bills - View Video - View Transcript
2 Sep 2025, 2:39 p.m. - House of Commons
"Presentation of Bills, minister. >> Sentencing Bill. "
Jess Phillips MP, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Birmingham Yardley, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
3 Sep 2025, 11:44 a.m. - House of Commons
"concerned about the impact on domestic abuse victims of the Sentencing Bill coming to the House. "
Rt Hon Sir Julian Smith MP (Skipton and Ripon, Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript
4 Sep 2025, 10:42 a.m. - House of Commons
"Sentencing Bill. The House will rise for the conference recess at the conclusion of business on Tuesday "
Rt Hon Lucy Powell MP, Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Manchester Central, Labour ) - View Video - View Transcript
16 Sep 2025, 11:49 a.m. - House of Commons
" No doubt, she will be contributing to the debate a little later with our sentencing bill. This was an issue raised by probation "
Rt Hon David Lammy MP, The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Tottenham, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
16 Sep 2025, 11:51 a.m. - House of Commons
"the sentencing bill. "
Rt Hon David Lammy MP, The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Tottenham, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
16 Sep 2025, 12:01 p.m. - House of Commons
"2,500. I hope you will be supporting the Sentencing Bill later this "
Jake Richards MP, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (Rother Valley, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
16 Sep 2025, 12:13 p.m. - House of Commons
"Sentencing Bill, looking at how we redress the balance here. But the Law Commissioners also doing a "
Alex Davies-Jones MP, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (Pontypridd, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
16 Sep 2025, 4:08 p.m. - House of Commons
">> Sentencing Bill second reading. "
Points of Order - View Video - View Transcript
16 Sep 2025, 4:13 p.m. - House of Commons
">> There is much to welcome in the sentencing Bill, including the inclusion of restrictions owner measures, which are testament to the tireless work of my constituents and "
Rt Hon David Lammy MP, The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Tottenham, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
16 Sep 2025, 5:13 p.m. - House of Commons
"am sure is very much up to the task. The sentencing bill shifts the focus from custodial sentences to dealing with offenders in the community. It is paramount therefore that "
Andy Slaughter MP (Hammersmith and Chiswick, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
16 Sep 2025, 4:44 p.m. - House of Commons
"on Deputy Prime Minister. When he rose to introduce the sentencing bill, earlier that I half expected him to rise waving a flag instead of "
Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP (Newark, Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript
16 Sep 2025, 5:08 p.m. - House of Commons
"he does. No Madam Deputy Speaker the sentencing bill is soft on crime is "
Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP (Newark, Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript
16 Sep 2025, 6:40 p.m. - House of Commons
">> I want to speak today about how the Sentencing Bill will bring some common sense to sentencing and will "
Pam Cox MP (Colchester, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
16 Sep 2025, 6:58 p.m. - House of Commons
"much welcome the move to favoured community sentences over short custodial sentences, as outlined in the Sentencing Bill. As we know, and has as been outlined, short-term "
Sally Jameson MP (Doncaster Central, Labour ) - View Video - View Transcript
16 Sep 2025, 7:19 p.m. - House of Commons
"Sentencing Bill is so necessary. It recognises that capacity must be built, yes, but also the sentences "
Tristan Osborne MP (Chatham and Aylesford, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
15 Sep 2025, 2:43 p.m. - House of Lords
" The sentencing bill is independent of the review and IPP was not in school because it focused "
Lord Timpson, The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
11 Sep 2025, 11:53 a.m. - House of Commons
"September consideration of Lords amendments to the employment rights Bill, Tuesday, 16 September, second reading of the Sentencing Bill, the "
Rt Hon Sir Alan Campbell MP, Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Tynemouth, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
14 Oct 2025, 3:03 p.m. - House of Lords
"they have a different approach. But with the sentencing bill, which is going to come to your lordships, how "
Lord Timpson, The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
14 Oct 2025, 3:08 p.m. - House of Lords
"prisons well when they're at 99.9% full. That is why our focus with the sentencing bill is to have a "
Lord Timpson, The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
15 Oct 2025, 6:40 p.m. - House of Commons
">> And communities. But also for the public purse. And as my hon. Friend has mentioned, next week we are debating the sentencing bill at committee stage, and I. "
Jake Richards MP, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (Rother Valley, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
15 Oct 2025, 6:43 p.m. - House of Commons
"that I've tabled to the sentencing bill, which takes those aspects after sentencing and puts them on the prisoners that are on remand so "
Jake Richards MP, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (Rother Valley, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript


Calendar
Tuesday 16th September 2025
Legislation - Main Chamber
Subject: Sentencing Bill: Second reading
Sentencing Bill 2024-26
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Parliamentary Debates
Knife Crime
89 speeches (14,144 words)
Wednesday 15th October 2025 - Westminster Hall
Home Office
Mentions:
1: Sarah Pochin (RUK - Runcorn and Helsby) The Sentencing Bill, which will have its next stage on Tuesday, will take away the power of magistrates - Link to Speech

Work for Serving Prisoners
27 speeches (4,869 words)
Wednesday 15th October 2025 - Commons Chamber
Ministry of Justice
Mentions:
1: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) Friend has mentioned, we are debating the Sentencing Bill in Committee next week, and I hope that the - Link to Speech
2: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD - Chichester) I wonder whether he will give consideration to my amendment to the Sentencing Bill, which applies matters - Link to Speech

Prisoners: Reoffending
18 speeches (1,795 words)
Tuesday 14th October 2025 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Justice
Mentions:
1: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) With the Sentencing Bill, which will come to your Lordships’ House soon, the inspiration has been the - Link to Speech
2: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) That is why our focus in the Sentencing Bill is on a sustainable justice system, so that prisons and - Link to Speech

Oral Answers to Questions
163 speeches (9,531 words)
Tuesday 16th September 2025 - Commons Chamber
Ministry of Justice
Mentions:
1: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) I hope he will contribute to the debate on the Sentencing Bill later today. - Link to Speech
2: Kieran Mullan (Con - Bexhill and Battle) The Opposition will table an amendment to the Sentencing Bill that would give the same protection to - Link to Speech
3: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) Member will support the Sentencing Bill later this afternoon, which will do that. - Link to Speech
4: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) There is also the Sentencing Bill, and I hope that my hon. - Link to Speech
5: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) Friend will know that we are debating the Sentencing Bill later today, looking at how we redress the - Link to Speech

Sentencing Bill
139 speeches (32,312 words)
2nd reading
Tuesday 16th September 2025 - Commons Chamber
Ministry of Justice
Mentions:
1: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) There is much to welcome in the Sentencing Bill, including the inclusion of restriction zone measures - Link to Speech
2: Edward Morello (LD - West Dorset) I cannot deny that clause 4 of the sentencing Bill is a step forward for victims, but I believe it can - Link to Speech
3: Lizzi Collinge (Lab - Morecambe and Lunesdale) They deserve this Sentencing Bill. - Link to Speech
4: Tristan Osborne (Lab - Chatham and Aylesford) That is why the Sentencing Bill is so necessary; it recognises that capacity must be built, but also - Link to Speech

IPP Sentences
22 speeches (1,635 words)
Monday 15th September 2025 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Justice
Mentions:
1: Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick (XB - Life peer) will say, “Don’t say anything negative about probation”, but might he consider something in the Sentencing Bill - Link to Speech
2: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) The Sentencing Bill implements the independent sentencing review. - Link to Speech

Business of the House
97 speeches (10,476 words)
Thursday 11th September 2025 - Commons Chamber
Leader of the House
Mentions:
1: Alan Campbell (Lab - Tynemouth) On Tuesday we have the Second Reading of the Sentencing Bill. - Link to Speech

Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Removal of Prisoners for Deportation) Order 2025
7 speeches (2,556 words)
Monday 8th September 2025 - Grand Committee
Ministry of Justice
Mentions:
1: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) necessary.Noble Lords will also know that the Government are seeking to go further still in the Sentencing Bill - Link to Speech
2: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) That is starting to make a difference, but it is clear that the Sentencing Bill is needed to help us - Link to Speech

Oral Answers to Questions
135 speeches (9,956 words)
Wednesday 3rd September 2025 - Commons Chamber
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: Julian Smith (Con - Skipton and Ripon) The Parole Board is extremely concerned about the impact on domestic abuse victims of the Sentencing Bill - Link to Speech

Imprisonment for Public Protection (Re-sentencing) Bill [HL]
35 speeches (11,870 words)
Committee stage
Friday 4th July 2025 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Justice
Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Suitability for Fixed Term Recall) Order 2025
16 speeches (4,403 words)
Tuesday 1st July 2025 - Grand Committee
Ministry of Justice
Mentions:
1: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) in the longer term, recall will form part of the discussions around the Gauke review and the sentencing Bill - Link to Speech

Criminal Justice
54 speeches (13,599 words)
Wednesday 25th June 2025 - Commons Chamber
Ministry of Justice
Mentions:
1: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith and Chiswick) deal with the dramatic increase in demand on its services that will inevitably result from the sentencing Bill - Link to Speech

Theft of Tools of Trade
24 speeches (4,270 words)
Wednesday 11th June 2025 - Westminster Hall
Ministry of Justice
Mentions:
1: Amanda Martin (Lab - Portsmouth North) I introduced a ten-minute rule Bill, the Theft of Tools of Trade (Sentencing) Bill. - Link to Speech
2: David Taylor (Lab - Hemel Hempstead) cause long-lasting emotional harm.That is why I strongly support the Theft of Tools of Trade (Sentencing) Bill - Link to Speech

Oral Answers to Questions
185 speeches (11,186 words)
Tuesday 3rd June 2025 - Commons Chamber
Ministry of Justice
Mentions:
1: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) Friend and other colleagues as we draw up our package of proposals for the upcoming sentencing Bill. - Link to Speech
2: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) We have an upcoming sentencing Bill, and I will take the action that he and his Government never did - Link to Speech
3: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) move to restriction zones for offenders, and we will bring forward our proposals in the upcoming sentencing Bill - Link to Speech



Select Committee Documents
Wednesday 15th October 2025
Correspondence - Letter dated 1 October 2025 from Lord Timpson, Minister of State for Justice, to the Chair, Justice and Home Affairs Committee following his appearance before the Committee on 16 September as part of its investigation into Electronic Monitoring.

Justice and Home Affairs Committee

Found: The Committee then asked whether it would be appropriate to use the Sentencing Bill to introduce this

Wednesday 15th October 2025
Written Evidence - Revolving Doors
ETM0013 - Investigation into electronic monitoring

Investigation into electronic monitoring - Justice and Home Affairs Committee

Found: This punitive drift is being extended further, with the new Sentencing Bill introducing an assumption

Monday 22nd September 2025
Government Response - Letter dated 12 September from Lord Timpson, Minister of State for Justice, and Government response to the Justice and Home Affairs Committee report Better Prisons: Less Crime.

Justice and Home Affairs Committee

Found: enhance understanding of sentencing (for example, as delivered ahead of the implementation of the Sentencing Bill

Tuesday 16th September 2025
Written Evidence - Big Brother Watch
ETM0010 - Investigation into electronic monitoring

Investigation into electronic monitoring - Justice and Home Affairs Committee

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

Tuesday 16th September 2025
Written Evidence - Women in Prison
ETM0004 - Investigation into electronic monitoring

Investigation into electronic monitoring - Justice and Home Affairs Committee

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

Tuesday 16th September 2025
Oral Evidence - Ministry of Justice, and Ministry of Justice

Investigation into electronic monitoring - Justice and Home Affairs Committee

Found: contracts, which presumably could be for additional tags that might come as a result of the Sentencing Bill

Wednesday 10th September 2025
Correspondence - Letter dated 2 September 2025 from Sir Nic Dakin MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice, to the Chair, Justice and Home Affairs Committee following the introduction of the Sentencing Bill.

Justice and Home Affairs Committee

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

Tuesday 9th September 2025
Oral Evidence - Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Justice, and Ministry of Justice

Justice Committee

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

Tuesday 9th September 2025
Correspondence - Correspondence from Sir Nic Dakin MP, Minister for Sentencing, dated 2 September 2025: Sentencing Bill - Commons Introduction

Justice Committee

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

Tuesday 9th September 2025
Oral Evidence - Crown Prosecution Service, City St George's, University of London, The Criminal Bar Association, The Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales, and University College London (UCL)

Justice Committee

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

Tuesday 9th September 2025
Oral Evidence - Allied Universal Electronic Monitoring, and Allied Universal Electronic Monitoring

Investigation into electronic monitoring - Justice and Home Affairs Committee

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

Tuesday 9th September 2025
Oral Evidence - Serco UK & Europe

Investigation into electronic monitoring - Justice and Home Affairs Committee

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

Friday 5th September 2025
Correspondence - Letter dated 24 July from Sir Nic Dakin MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, and Lord Timpson, Minister of State for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending, to the Chair, Justice and Home Affairs Committee regarding Imprisonment for Public Protection.

Justice and Home Affairs Committee

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

Wednesday 3rd September 2025
Oral Evidence - UK Government

Rule of Law - Constitution Committee

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

Tuesday 2nd September 2025
Correspondence - Correspondence from the Lord Chancellor, dated 25 July 2025: Recall and the Sentencing Bill

Justice Committee

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

Tuesday 2nd September 2025
Correspondence - Correspondence from Lord Timpson, Minister for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending and Sir Nic Dakin MP, Minister for Sentencing, dated 24 July 2025 relating to Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP)

Justice Committee

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

Tuesday 2nd September 2025
Oral Evidence - Rt Hon Alex Chalk KC, and Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe QPM

Investigation into electronic monitoring - Justice and Home Affairs Committee

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

Monday 1st September 2025
Written Evidence - Birmingham Autism and ADHD Partnership Board
AAC0195 - Autism Act 2009

Autism Act 2009 - Autism Act 2009 Committee

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

Tuesday 8th July 2025
Correspondence - Correspondence to the Lord Chancellor, dated 8 July 2025 relating to Recall and the Sentencing Bill

Justice Committee

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

Tuesday 8th July 2025
Oral Evidence - Ministry of Justice, HM Prison and Probation Service, and HM Prison and Probation Service

Tackling drugs in prisons: supply, demand and treatment - Justice Committee

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

Tuesday 1st July 2025
Oral Evidence - Parole Board, and Parole Board

Justice Committee

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

Wednesday 4th June 2025
Written Evidence - Dr Grahame Buss
BSE0038 - Building support for the energy transition

Building support for the energy transition - Energy Security and Net Zero Committee

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



Written Answers
Homicide: Offenders
Asked by: Steve Witherden (Labour - Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr)
Wednesday 15th October 2025

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether bereaved families of victims of murder would be protected under the restriction zone requirement in the Sentencing Bill.

Answered by Jake Richards - Assistant Whip

It is crucial that we have a justice system that punishes offenders and supports victims. That is why increasing restriction on serious sexual and violent offenders is part of our Plan for Change to cut crime and make streets safer.

Through the Sentencing Bill, we are introducing a new power which will allow restriction zones on offenders to be imposed on offenders on licence, where appropriate. These will restrict certain offenders to specific areas – so their victims know they are safe wherever else they want to go. Licence conditions for offenders convicted of murder are determined by the independent Parole Board.

We are working to finalise the operation of, and eligibility for, these zones, subject to the passage of the Sentencing Bill.

Homicide: Offenders
Asked by: Steve Witherden (Labour - Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr)
Wednesday 15th October 2025

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the restriction zone requirement in the Sentencing Bill would apply to offenders of murder.

Answered by Jake Richards - Assistant Whip

It is crucial that we have a justice system that punishes offenders and supports victims. That is why increasing restriction on serious sexual and violent offenders is part of our Plan for Change to cut crime and make streets safer.

Through the Sentencing Bill, we are introducing a new power which will allow restriction zones on offenders to be imposed on offenders on licence, where appropriate. These will restrict certain offenders to specific areas – so their victims know they are safe wherever else they want to go. Licence conditions for offenders convicted of murder are determined by the independent Parole Board.

We are working to finalise the operation of, and eligibility for, these zones, subject to the passage of the Sentencing Bill.

Domestic Abuse: Victims
Asked by: Adam Dance (Liberal Democrat - Yeovil)
Wednesday 15th October 2025

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the provisions in Part Two of the Sentencing Bill on victims of domestic abuse.

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

The Sentencing Bill includes a range of measures that will strengthen protections for victims of domestic abuse and ensure the justice system responds robustly to offending. These measures will help to ensure that prisons never run out of space again and dangerous offenders can be kept off the streets.

We are introducing a new judicial finding of domestic abuse at sentencing, which will help ensure domestic abuse offenders are better identified and monitored throughout the system. This will support stronger protections for victims, whether the perpetrator is in custody or in the community.

The Bill also retains a different release point for the most serious violent and sexual offenders and gives judges full discretion to impose immediate custody in cases involving significant risk of harm to an individual – including to protect victims of domestic abuse. In addition, we are imposing tough restriction zones for serious sexual and violent offenders, which limit the movement of perpetrators rather than victims.

These reforms are part of our wider commitment to a justice system that punishes offenders, protects the public, and supports victims – including those affected by domestic abuse.

Prisons: Drugs
Asked by: Lord Kempsell (Conservative - Life peer)
Thursday 25th September 2025

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to increase mandatory random drug testing in prisons in England and Wales, and to expand the range of drugs tested for.

Answered by Lord Timpson - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

The Government is committed to tackling drug use in prisons, which threatens prison safety and security, undermines our work to rehabilitate prisoners and drives reoffending. We therefore need to have a multi-pronged approach that tackles the supply of drugs, drives down demand and supports recovery – drug testing plays an important role in delivering this.

Random mandatory drug testing (rMDT) forms one part of our wider approach to tackling drug use in prisons. In custody, we also conduct more targeted testing, such as suspicion-based testing, when staff have reason to believe an individual has used drugs illicitly, as well as voluntary testing, which forms part of our approach on our Incentivised Substance Free Living Units, where prisoners sign a compact to remain drug free, receive access to improved conditions compared to a standard wing and are regularly tested. In probation settings, we are expanding our drug testing powers through the Sentencing Bill, meaning that any offender on licence can be tested.

We test for a wide range of substances and keep this under regular review to ensure we identify emerging trends to keep both staff and prisoners safe. Our new drug testing contract supports this by giving us greater flexibility to identify areas for improvement in our drug testing capabilities, ensuring we can keep pace with changing patterns of drug use and target support where it is most needed.

In recent years, levels of rMDT have fallen short across the estate because of staffing constraints, and as a result, volumes have not been sufficient nor consistently high enough to produce publishable data – though results are still used as part of adjudication proceedings. There has been some encouraging progress made in recent months to increase levels, and we will continue to keep performance under close review.

Electronic Tagging: Procurement
Asked by: Robert Jenrick (Conservative - Newark)
Thursday 11th September 2025

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.

Electronic Tagging: Procurement
Asked by: Robert Jenrick (Conservative - Newark)
Thursday 11th September 2025

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.

Sentencing: Parliamentary Scrutiny
Asked by: Andrew Snowden (Conservative - Fylde)
Wednesday 10th September 2025

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.

Offenders
Asked by: Ben Goldsborough (Labour - South Norfolk)
Wednesday 10th September 2025

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.

Reoffenders: Community Orders
Asked by: Matt Vickers (Conservative - Stockton West)
Friday 5th September 2025

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 - Vice Chamberlain (HM Household) (Whip, House of Commons)

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.

Prison Sentences
Asked by: Matt Vickers (Conservative - Stockton West)
Friday 5th September 2025

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 - Vice Chamberlain (HM Household) (Whip, House of Commons)

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.



Parliamentary Research
Sentencing Bill - CBP-10332
Sep. 12 2025

Found: Sentencing Bill



Bills
Sentencing Bill 2024-26
Presented by Shabana Mahmood (Labour - Birmingham Ladywood)
Government Bill
(Ministry of Justice)

A Bill to Make provision about the sentencing, release and management after sentencing of offenders; to make provision about bail; to make provision about the removal from the United Kingdom of foreign criminals and the processing of information about foreign criminals for immigration purposes; and for connected purposes.

Commons - 40%



Bill Documents
Sep. 12 2025
Sentencing Bill
Sentencing Bill 2024-26
Briefing papers

Found: Sentencing Bill

Sep. 02 2025
Bill 299 EN 2024-25
Sentencing Bill 2024-26
Explanatory Notes

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

Sep. 02 2025
Bill 299 2024-25 (as introduced)
Sentencing Bill 2024-26
Bill

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

Sep. 02 2025
Impact Assessment from the Ministry of Justice
Sentencing Bill 2024-26
Impact Assessments

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

Sep. 02 2025
Human Rights Memorandum from the Ministry of Justice
Sentencing Bill 2024-26
Human rights memorandum

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

Sep. 02 2025
Bill 299 EN 2024-25 - large print
Sentencing Bill 2024-26
Explanatory Notes

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

Sep. 02 2025
Bill 299 2024-25 - large print
Sentencing Bill 2024-26
Bill

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

Sep. 02 2025
Delegated Powers Memorandum from the Ministry of Justice
Sentencing Bill 2024-26
Delegated Powers Memorandum

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

Jul. 02 2025
HL Bill 19-I Marshalled list for Committee
Imprisonment for Public Protection (Re-sentencing) Bill [HL] 2024-26
Amendment Paper

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

Jun. 25 2025
HL Bill 19 Running list of amendments – 25 June 2025
Imprisonment for Public Protection (Re-sentencing) Bill [HL] 2024-26
Amendment Paper

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



APPG Publications

Restorative Justice APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025


Document: RJ APPG Inquiry Appendix

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

Cats APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025


Document: APGOCATS EGM 2020 – 10th September 2020

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

Cats APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025


Document: APGOCATS Inaugural Meeting of the 2019 Parliament – 11th February 2020

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

Cats APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025


Document: APGOCATS Summer Meeting – 3rd July 2019

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



Department Publications - News and Communications
Wednesday 1st October 2025
Ministry of Justice
Source Page: Lord Chancellor swearing-in speech: Rt Hon David Lammy MP
Document: Lord Chancellor swearing-in speech: Rt Hon David Lammy MP (webpage)

Found: And I will carry on that transformative work, Through the Sentencing Bill… Delivering punishment that

Thursday 18th September 2025
Ministry of Justice
Source Page: More sex offenders given chemical suppressants
Document: More sex offenders given chemical suppressants (webpage)

Found: This comes as part of the second reading of the Sentencing Bill in the House of Commons.

Wednesday 10th September 2025
Ministry of Justice
Source Page: New remote face scanning tech to monitor offenders and cut crime
Document: New remote face scanning tech to monitor offenders and cut crime (webpage)

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

Tuesday 2nd September 2025
Ministry of Justice
Source Page: Tens of thousands more to be tagged under biggest ever expansion
Document: Tens of thousands more to be tagged under biggest ever expansion (webpage)

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

Tuesday 2nd September 2025
Ministry of Justice
Source Page: Justice Secretary introduces democratic lock over Sentencing Council
Document: Justice Secretary introduces democratic lock over Sentencing Council (webpage)

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



Department Publications - Policy paper
Wednesday 3rd September 2025
Ministry of Justice
Source Page: Sentencing Bill 2025
Document: (PDF)

Found: Sentencing Bill 2025

Wednesday 3rd September 2025
Ministry of Justice
Source Page: Sentencing Bill 2025
Document: (PDF)

Found: Sentencing Bill 2025

Wednesday 3rd September 2025
Ministry of Justice
Source Page: Sentencing Bill 2025
Document: Sentencing Bill 2025 (webpage)

Found: Sentencing Bill 2025



Department Publications - Statistics
Tuesday 5th August 2025
Ministry of Justice
Source Page: Independent Prison Capacity Review: final report
Document: (PDF)

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



Non-Departmental Publications - News and Communications
Sep. 02 2025
Judicial Office
Source Page: Justice Secretary introduces democratic lock over Sentencing Council
Document: Justice Secretary introduces democratic lock over Sentencing Council (webpage)
News and Communications

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



Non-Departmental Publications - Transparency
Jul. 23 2025
Parole Board
Source Page: Parole Board Strategy 2025-28
Document: (PDF)
Transparency

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




Sentencing Bill 2023-24 mentioned in Scottish results


Scottish Parliamentary Debates
Prison Population
35 speeches (29,521 words)
Thursday 2nd October 2025 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Mackay, Rona (SNP - Strathkelvin and Bearsden) Government expects to significantly reduce its high prison population through measures in its Sentencing Bill - Link to Speech