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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Michelle Donelan (Con - Chippenham) Last month we saw the first sentencing under the cyber-flashing offences that we brought in in January - Speech Link
2: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) Liberal Democrat amendment to the Victims and Prisoners Bill would give all victims the right to read sentencing - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) We already offer a free service to families of homicide victims, for example. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Robert Buckland (Con - South Swindon) The consultation on sentencing in cases of murder concluded a few weeks ago. - Speech Link
2: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) Will the Secretary of State consider re-categorising homicide laws to introduce first-degree and second-degree - Speech Link
3: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) The law of homicide has been considered greatly—in fact, as a Back Bencher, I led a debate on the issue - Speech Link
4: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) It is not in dispute that rape is the most serious offence a person can experience that is not homicide - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Burnett of Maldon (XB - Life peer) Those judges have extensive criminal experience; in particular, when dealing with sentencing, either - Speech Link
2: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) noble Lord, Lord Russell, and others have mentioned, nothing will change.I am sick of having domestic homicide - Speech Link
3: Baroness Newlove (Con - Life peer) In a domestic homicide review, the families already know the information and have complained about it - Speech Link
4: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) If the Minister does that, it will save lives.As I said, I am sick of reading domestic homicide reviews - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Gareth Bacon (Con - Orpington) Measures in the Sentencing Bill will ensure that those who commit the worst crimes will receive the most - Speech Link
2: Gareth Bacon (Con - Orpington) Friend is quite right to raise the issue of domestic homicide. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) then Government announced their attention to introduce legally aided representations for victims in homicide - Speech Link
2: Earl Howe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) This is unlike the powers governing the extraction of material from devices in the Police, Crime, Sentencing - Speech Link
3: None At the time of the sentencing hearing in the Crown Court, there really will not be an immediate need - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Knife and Sword Ban - Tue 06 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) crimes happening in domestic spaces are in some way deemed less significant and that can be reflected in sentencing - Speech Link
2: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) Of course, the principal example of that is homicide, which is relevant here. - Speech Link
3: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) In relation to sentencing, about which my hon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Joint Enterprise (Significant Contribution) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 02 Feb 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Kim Johnson (Lab - Liverpool, Riverside) or attempted homicide under joint enterprise laws. - Speech Link
2: Philip Davies (Con - Shipley) If we adopted that honesty in sentencing, many of the people that the hon. - Speech Link
3: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) and attempted homicide cases in February 2023. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) The ability to read and review the summing up and sentencing and ensure that they are taken fully on - Speech Link
2: None We are asking His Majesty’s Government to provide all Crown Court sentencing remarks to victims upon - Speech Link
3: None Cross-Bencher, the noble Baroness, Lady Casey, led a review into the needs of families bereaved by homicide - Speech Link
4: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) As a minimum, all victims must have access to sentencing remarks. - Speech Link
5: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) The Sentencing Council point is an interesting one, which I will reflect on. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Criminal Justice Bill (Fifteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 15th sitting - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Peter Dowd (Lab - Bootle) or attempted homicide under joint enterprise laws, yet no assessment of the reasons for this shocking - Speech Link
2: Peter Dowd (Lab - Bootle) or attempted homicide under joint enterprise laws? - Speech Link
3: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) or attempted homicide under joint enterprise laws? - Speech Link
4: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) All three new clauses illustrate the need for a sentencing review for serious road traffic offences, - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Sentencing Act 2020 (Amendment of Schedule 21) Regulations 2023 - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Gareth Bacon (Con - Orpington) in domestic homicide cases to establish whether the law and sentencing guidelines were fit for purpose - Speech Link
2: Kevin Brennan (Lab - Cardiff West) It addresses some of the recommendations in Clare Wade KC’s domestic homicide sentencing review to give - Speech Link