Siân Berry

Siân Berry

Green Party — Brighton Pavilion

Speaking in the House of Commons on 17 March 2025

Debate

Sentencing Council Guidelines

Contribution

I do not believe the shadow Secretary of State believes that the law is currently applied equally and free of structural biases. But given the unfortunate politicisation of all this, does the Minister now back the chair of the Sentencing Council, who says that the state should not determine the sentence imposed on an individual offender and that sentencing guidelines of any kind—if they were to be dictated in any way by Ministers—would breach an important principle?

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