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Speaking in the House of Lords on 5 February 2026
Debate
Crime and Policing BillContribution
The CPS also looked at the use of discriminatory language and stereotypes in language used by both police and prosecutors in charging decisions which revealed clear differences in language used to describe suspects and circumstances of offences depending on the subject’s ethnicity. In a letter to the chair of the Justice Select Committee in November 2024 regarding its investigations into the data on disproportionate prosecutions of ethnic minorities, the Director of Public Prosecutions stated:
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