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Commons Chamber
Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 22 Apr 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) In fact, we fully support section 30 of the Sentencing Act 2020—the sentencing code—which makes it clear - Speech Link
2: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) We know for a fact that more offensive two-tier sentencing guidelines are incoming.The Sentencing Council - Speech Link
3: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith and Chiswick) The Bill is designed to make it unlawful for a sentencing guideline issued by the Sentencing Council - Speech Link
4: Jonathan Brash (Lab - Hartlepool) The then Conservative sentencing Minister, the hon. - Speech Link
5: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) In the last Parliament, we legislated to increase the maximum sentence for causing death by dangerous - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Tue 20 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) given, a police officer may stop any member of the public to search them for offensive weapons or dangerous - Speech Link
2: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) Fundamentally, it will prevent crime and may even in the long run prevent serious injury or death. - Speech Link
3: None Amendment 416I would remove a small but dangerous subset of machines that are manifestly illegal and - Speech Link
4: Viscount Goschen (Con - Excepted Hereditary) If people were driving trucks with no licence plates on them, they would very quickly find themselves - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Crime and Policing Bill (Thirteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 13th sitting - Thu 08 May 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) cycling) insert—‘27A Causing death by dangerous cyclingA person who causes the death of another person - Speech Link
2: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) new offences of causing death or serious injury by dangerous or careless cycling, making our streets - Speech Link
3: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) or serious injury through dangerous or careless driving face severe legal consequences, no equivalent - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Crime and Policing Bill (Fourth sitting) - Tue 01 Apr 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) We will treat antisocial driving as the blight on society that it is. - Speech Link
2: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) They may be asked to prove that they have valid insurance and a driving licence. - Speech Link
3: Jack Rankin (Con - Windsor) Also, new clause 24 on driving licences, tabled by my hon. - Speech Link
4: Joe Robertson (Con - Isle of Wight East) The court’s sentencing powers need to be greater than four years in some circumstances. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Crime and Policing Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee stage: 6th Sitting - Thu 03 Apr 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None —Requirements in certain sentences imposed for third or subsequent shoplifting offence—“(1) The Sentencing - Speech Link
2: Harriet Cross (Con - Gordon and Buchan) The impact on these children is multifaceted, up to and including their own death. - Speech Link
3: Joe Robertson (Con - Isle of Wight East) Member for Neath and Swansea East tabled to increase the length of sentencing. - Speech Link
4: None by dangerous driving, various sexual offences and many others. - Speech Link
5: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) The provision for on-conviction orders is made by amendment of the sentencing code by schedule 4. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part two - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) I see the noble Lord, Lord Thomas, sitting there, and we acted in cases involving East End gangs who - Speech Link
2: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) independent Sentencing Council for England and Wales. - Speech Link
3: Lord Meston (XB - Excepted Hereditary) It is not just child grooming gangs, well-known celebrity abuse cases or cases involving institutions - Speech Link
4: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Any different approach, especially one involving time and energy in instances of hazy information in - Speech Link
5: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Many ideas have been canvassed today, and it would be dangerous for me to try to draft on the hoof at - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Victims and Courts Bill
2nd reading2nd Reading - Tue 20 May 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) We are also reforming sentencing so that our prisons never run out of space again and there is always - Speech Link
2: Clive Efford (Lab - Eltham and Chislehurst) Her murderer refused to attend court and participate in his sentencing, and that caused a great deal - Speech Link
3: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith and Chiswick) First, it deals with attendance at sentencing hearings. - Speech Link
4: Elsie Blundell (Lab - Heywood and Middleton North) driving, off-road bikes and drug crime have been growing in prominence. - Speech Link
5: Tristan Osborne (Lab - Chatham and Aylesford) We do that for the Supreme Court, where people are able to see sentencing. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fifth sitting)
Committee stage: 5th Sitting - Thu 06 Mar 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) vessel, removing the requirement for the individual to have done an act to cause or create a risk of death - Speech Link
2: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) vessel, removing the requirement for the individual to have done an act to cause or create a risk of death - Speech Link
3: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) It is not about, as some have said, criminalising vulnerable people and dangerous crossings. - Speech Link
4: Will Forster (LD - Woking) by dangerous driving. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Representation of the People Bill
2nd reading - Mon 02 Mar 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Kevin Bonavia (Lab - Stevenage) The age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales is 10, the driving age in this country is 17, - Speech Link
2: Rushanara Ali (Lab - Bethnal Green and Stepney) There was organised disinformation and death threats in a campaign conducted with constant concerns for - Speech Link
3: Danny Kruger (RUK - East Wiltshire) We already prevent young people at that age from driving, from buying cigarettes and alcohol, and from - Speech Link
4: Ben Spencer (Con - Runnymede and Weybridge) Voting is more important than being able to buy a beer, have a driving licence or join the cadets. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Knife Crime: Children and Young People - Thu 20 Mar 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con - Huntingdon) issue that repeatedly falls by the wayside, until it is thrust back into the spotlight with the tragic death - Speech Link
2: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con - Huntingdon) down the street, eventually cornering him in a hair salon where he was shot and brutally hacked to death - Speech Link
3: Paul Foster (Lab - South Ribble) They met online on a platform that was used to lure Alex to his death. - Speech Link
4: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Lab - Clapham and Brixton Hill) Increased policing and sentencing are not the only solution and cannot work on their own. - Speech Link