Oral Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
“If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 21 October 2026Answered: 27 October 2026
Asked by
Ben Maguire
Liberal Democrat — North Cornwall
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
Answer from Hansard
Shabana Mahmood
The independent sentencing review will be making recommendations to ensure that our sentencing legislation and framework is fit for purpose and that we always have prison places for those who need to be locked up, so that our prisons create better citizens out of criminals and we can expand the use of punishment outside prison. I will not get ahead of what that review might recommend but it will look at all those issues in the round.