Domestic Homicide Sentencing Review
Commons · Question 52774 · Tabled 15 May 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 20 May 2025
Question
Asked by Steve Witherden
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she plans to publish an updated response to the Domestic Homicide Sentencing Review.
Answer
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin, 20 May 2025
The Lord Chancellor set out the Government’s plans for reforms to sentencing of domestic homicides in a Written Ministerial Statement to Parliament on 6 December 2024 (HCWS286). The Law Commission has accepted our request to undertake a review of the law ...