Member

Amendment 14 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Beith, seeks to ensure that the Bill does not prevent sentencing guidelines on pre-sentence reports from including provision which is based on recent case law. During debates in this House and the other place, the Lord Chancellor and I have both been clear that the Bill does not affect Court of Appeal case law that has covered the types of cases where pre-sentence reports are necessary or desirable, including examples around pregnant women and women who have recently given birth, young defendants and vulnerable defendants.