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Pre-sentence Reports |
| Question ID: |
1790361 |
| UIN: |
42387 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-31 |
| Asking Member ID: |
54 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Sir Julian Lewis
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Sir Julian Lewis
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether it is her policy that pre-sentence reports to inform judges prior to passing sentences on offenders should be requested in light of (a) their individual circumstances only and (b) any specific groups to w |
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true |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-04 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4056 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Nicholas Dakin
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Sir Nicholas Dakin
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| Answer text: |
Pre-sentence reports can be vital tools for judges and for all offenders, regardless of their membership of a certain cohort. Courts are required to obtain and consider them unless, in the circumstances of the case they consider them unnecessary.We are cl... |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |