| Heading: |
Domestic Abuse: Sentencing |
| Question ID: |
1816935 |
| UIN: |
63085 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-26 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5037 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lola McEvoy
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Lola McEvoy
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to speed up the sentencing of people found guilty of domestic violence. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-04 |
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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: |
As part of our landmark mission to halve violence against women and girls within a decade, we are committed to strengthening the justice system’s response to domestic violence.Most domestic abuse cases are heard in magistrates’ courts where cases move mor... |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |