Sentencing

(asked on 16th July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on providing non-stipendiary magistrates with electronic copies of Sentencing Guidelines and updates thereof free of charge; and what plans his Department has to provide non-stipendiary magistrates with electronic copies of Sentencing Guidelines and updates thereof free of charge.


Answered by
Mike Penning Portrait
Mike Penning
This question was answered on 3rd September 2014

The Government Electronic versions of all sentencing guidelines and updates are currently available at no cost on the Council's website: www.sentencingcouncil.judiciary.gov.uk

The cost incurred in producing these electronic versions of the Magistrates’ Court Sentencing Guidelines is minimal and arises from the staff time from the Ministry of Justice design team and the staff time of the Office of the Sentencing Council.

By spring 2015, as part of the digitisation of the criminal justice system, magistrates will be able to access sentencing guidelines via a link from a hand-held device to the Sentencing Council’s website. This will ensure that magistrates will always have access to the most up to date version of the guidelines.

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