| Heading: |
Sentencing: Attendance |
| Question ID: |
1819738 |
| UIN: |
65105 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-07-04 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4861 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Robbie Moore
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| Asking Member handle: |
_RobbieMoore
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@_RobbieMoore
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of (a) suspects were tried and (b) convicted people were sentenced in absentia in the last 12 months. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-09 |
| 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: |
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on trials, convictions and sentencing outcomes at criminal courts in England and Wales (latest data to December 2024), available from the Criminal Justice Statistics page. However, it is not possible to provide the n... |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |