Sexual Offences: Sentencing
2026-05-12 · Ministry of Justice · 1033 · Official question
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...