(asked on 3rd April 2025) - View Source
Questioner
Alicia Kearns Portrait
Alicia Kearns
(Conservative - Rutland and Stamford)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans her Department has to review the use of automatism as a legal defence.

Answered by
Alex Davies-Jones Portrait
Alex Davies-Jones
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 8th April 2025

There are no current plans for the Government to review the defence of automatism.

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