| Heading: |
Criminal Proceedings |
| Question ID: |
1805730 |
| UIN: |
54436 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-22 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5050 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lewis Cocking
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| Asking Member handle: |
_LewisCocking
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@_LewisCocking
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that criminal (a) prosecution and (b) sentencing is applied consistently. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-02 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4056 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Nicholas Dakin
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Sir Nicholas Dakin
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
Charging decisions are a matter for the independent Crown Prosecution Service and sentencing is a matter for the independent judiciary, based on the circumstances of individual cases.Equality before the law is a fundamental principle of our justice system... |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |