Sentencing
(asked on 10th February 2020) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent research his Department has commissioned on the cost implications of increasing magistrates sentencing powers to 12 months for a single offence; and if he will make a statement.
This question was answered on 18th February 2020
The Government has no current plans to increase magistrates’ custodial sentencing powers and has made no recent assessment of the impact of doing so.