Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Laura Trott and Alex Chalk

Thursday 18th November 2021 Commons Chamber

[The Solicitor General]

Yes, and those resources are growing. CPS London North maintains hate crime co-ordinators and inclusion and community engagement managers to provide a single point of contact on all aspects of hate crime prosecution. It has achieved some of the highest sentence uplift statistics anywhere in the country, with increases handed down in 83% of cases.

[Laura Trott (Sevenoaks) (Con)]

9. What assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the unduly lenient sentence scheme in 2021.