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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 19 May 2025
Debate
Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) BillContribution
I remember on this subject that we talked about the impact on children caught up in the criminal justice system because a mother is impacted by it. The Joint Committee on Human Rights did some work that alluded to that, and we heard some extremely moving evidence from the grandmother of children whose mother was detained. I hope that, working together, we can find our way through this—otherwise, we are just going to impose by legislation what is, frankly, a really difficult mess.
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