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Lord Young of Acton (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 4 March 2026

Debate

Crime and Policing Bill

Contribution

The court can already take all the aggravating factors into account, save for hostility to sex. If a crime is aggravated by one of three of the four aggravators that the Bill would introduce into the charging regime, the CPS can flag those as aggravating factors and they can be taken into account at the sentencing stage, so what material difference would the government amendments make?

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