Written questions

Sexual Offences: Sentencing

2026-05-12 · Ministry of Justice · 1033 · Official question

Neil Duncan-Jordan

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has considered Introducing a statutory requirement for automatic no-contact orders to be imposed at the point of sentencing upon conviction for relevant sexual offences.

Answer

The Government’s Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy, published in December, focuses on relentlessly pursuing perpetrators, disrupting their behaviour and preventing reoffending, alongside supporting victims.The police and courts already have robust...