Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Keen of Elie on 24 February (HL1472), why they have no current plans to review Part Three of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.

Part 3 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (“LASPO”) makes a series of amendments to the existing sentencing and release framework, very few of which are standalone provisions. Furthermore, some of the LASPO provisions have subsequently been amended, or even repealed. It would therefore be difficult to isolate the impact of the amendments brought in by LASPO from the impact of other provisions, or to identify a causal link between the specific LASPO changes and wider factors in crime and sentencing.