Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 80547

Environment Protection: Sentencing

Tabled: 10 October 2025

Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Dr Lauren Sullivan

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to help ensure that magistrates’ courts hand down proportionate sentences for environmental crime.

Answer

Jake Richards

Sentencing in individual cases is a matter for the courts. Parliament has provided the courts with a broad range of sentencing powers to deal effectively and appropriately with offenders, including discharges, fines, community sentences, suspended sentenc...

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