Magistrates' Courts: Sentencing

(asked on 19th May 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Government Response to the Justice Committee’s Eighteenth Report of Session 2017-19: The Role of the Magistracy, CP192, what progress he has made on compiling the evidence base required to inform a decision on extending the custodial sentencing powers of Magistrates; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 4th June 2020

The Government has no current plans to increase magistrates’ custodial sentencing powers and has made no recent assessment of the impact of doing so.

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