Female Offenders 2025-06-03
2025-06-03
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Q1
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The MP is chair of the all-party parliamentary group on women affected by the criminal justice system. The independent sentencing review's final report has been released, encouraging the Government to consider introducing statutory defences for victims of domestic abuse.
I welcome the independent sentencing review’s final report which encourages the Government to consider introducing statutory defences for victims of domestic abuse, including where coercion has been a factor in their offending. Will the Government look further at those proposals?
Yes, the Government will look further at those proposals. The Women’s Justice Board has been created to do exactly that sort of work.
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Q2
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In March, the Government announced that girls will no longer be placed in young offenders institutions. There is a need to monitor this policy and ensure public safety.
How will the Minister monitor the implementation of the policy that girls will no longer be placed in young offenders institutions? How will he ensure the public are protected from the small number of violent girls who need to be detained?
Every week I get a report of the number of girls in our youth estate, so I am monitoring it. There are no girls in a YOI, and there have not been since the girl who was in a YOI moved out soon after we came into government.
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