Appearances and Speeches

My right hon.

My hon.

My hon. Friend is right to highlight the work going on in Cumbria.

Murder convictions must attract a mandatory life sentence.

The Government funds services for all victims of crime, regardless of the crime type, when it happened, or whether it has been reported to t

The Ministry of Justice holds data on the average length of the minimum term (sometimes known as a ‘tariff’) for life sentences for murder c

This information can be viewed in the attached table.

This information is not centrally recorded and to obtain it would involve a manual interrogation of prisoner records which would result in a

The Government has no plans to review the law on assisted dying.

The Ministry of Justice published a Sentencing White Paper – ‘A Smarter Approach to Sentencing’ - in September 2020, which set out the depar