Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lucy Frazer and Sally-Ann Hart

Tuesday 8th December 2020 Commons Chamber

[Lucy Frazer]

I cannot begin to imagine what Ellie Gould’s parents must have been through. In addition to the point that I made about introducing a sliding scale to reflect age and severity, I want to make it clear that we are considering a particular minimum threshold for those who are 17. My hon. Friend mentioned the knife already being present at the scene of crime, in the home. He will know that the Sentencing Council has produced guidelines for judges on domestic abuse, which outline that the domestic setting of the offending behaviour makes it more serious. As he knows, these are matters that we are looking at in our sentencing White Paper.

[Sally-Ann Hart (Hastings and Rye) (Con)]

What steps the Government are taking to increase the use of community sentence treatment requirements.