Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Tom Hayes and Shabana Mahmood

Tuesday 8th July 2025 Commons Chamber

[Shabana Mahmood]

The right hon. Gentleman will know that I cannot and will not comment on individual sentences. I urge him to live up to the responsibility of being the shadow Lord Chancellor, because commenting in the way that he regularly does on individual sentencing decisions, stripped of context and without all the information, is wrong. Those are independent decisions made by the independent judiciary in individual cases.

[Tom Hayes (Bournemouth East) (Lab)]

10. What steps she is taking to increase prison capacity.