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Public Bill Committees
Criminal Justice Bill (First sitting) - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Mark Garnier (Con - Wyre Forest) Sentencing is a matter for the court. - Speech Link
2: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) review sentencing, we have to look at these in the whole.” - Speech Link
3: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) Q You have already answered the question about domestic homicide at the end of a relationship. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Town Centre Safety - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) What is the difference between his proposal and that which was enacted under the Police, Crime, Sentencing - Speech Link
2: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) Having it as a sentencing factor alone does not seem to be acting as a deterrent, so we need a specific - Speech Link
3: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) and Courts Act 2022, and now the Sentencing Bill.Most shockingly, in Longton town centre, the Dougie - Speech Link
4: Kim Leadbeater (Lab - Batley and Spen) able to deal with the most serious incidents in policing, from terrorism to serious organised crime, homicide - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Report stage - Mon 04 Dec 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None and Courts Act 2022 (relationship of offensive weapons homicide reviews with other review requirements - Speech Link
2: None For that reason, new clause 20 will change the name of domestic homicide reviews and the circumstances - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Criminal Justice Bill
2nd reading - Tue 28 Nov 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) Police-recorded homicide is down by 15% and the number of under-25 NHS admissions for assault by a sharp - Speech Link
2: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) to attend sentencing in person. - Speech Link
3: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) A great deal of work has taken place in the Home Office around domestic homicide reviews. - Speech Link
4: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) The number of homicide victims has shown a downward trend since 2004-05. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Court Transcript Costs - Thu 16 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) remarks to be made available at the judge’s discretion or measures to provide families bereaved by homicide - Speech Link
2: Mike Freer (Con - Finchley and Golders Green) To help with court transcription costs, we have made sure that bereaved family members of victims of homicide - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) We are implementing a further recommendation in the domestic homicide sentencing review, giving judges - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Remarkably, Police Scotland has a 100% homicide detection rate, meaning that every one of the tragic - Speech Link
3: Robert Neill (Con - Bromley and Chislehurst) in the UK, as well as an issue with public understanding of the objectives of sentencing. - Speech Link
4: Dehenna Davison (Con - Bishop Auckland) Victim support is patchy and varied, and sentencing is felt to be far too low. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) Bill, which the noble and learned Lord, Lord Bellamy, called sentencing and offender management. - Speech Link
2: Lord Beith (LD - Life peer) The first is prisons and sentencing. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bray of Coln (Con - Life peer) Refusal to appear for sentencing could incur a penalty of further time in prison. - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) It is high harm—one in five homicides is a domestic homicide, and we have referred to the sentencing - Speech Link


Written Statements
Domestic Homicide Sentencing Review by Clare Wade KC: Government Response - Thu 20 Jul 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (CON - Cheltenham) Government’s full response to the recommendations made by Clare Wade KC in the independent Domestic Homicide - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Victims and Prisoners Bill (Thirteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 13th sitting - Tue 11 Jul 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None prisoner’s unlawful act;(d) an offence specified in any of paragraphs 41 to 43 of Schedule 18 to the Sentencing - Speech Link
2: Jess Phillips (LAB - Birmingham, Yardley) assessment that we could see on the disproportionate use of manslaughter charges in cases such as domestic homicide - Speech Link
3: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) , which covers fixed-term sentences; and clause 44 disapplies it from section 128 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing - Speech Link
4: Oliver Heald (CON - North East Hertfordshire) Minister would want to—that the vice-chair of the Parole Board, Peter Rook, wrote a leading text on sentencing - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Victims and Prisoners Bill (Fourteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 14th sitting - Tue 11 Jul 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None opportunity for further debate.New Clause 4Information relating to victimsIn Part 2 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing - Speech Link
2: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) requests for third party material and it inserts a new chapter 3 into part 2 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing - Speech Link
3: Jess Phillips (LAB - Birmingham, Yardley) In every inquiry, every domestic homicide review, every serious case review and every child sex abuse - Speech Link
4: Ellie Reeves (LAB - Lewisham West and Penge) That is necessary, as so many cases of domestic homicide result in a manslaughter rather than a murder - Speech Link