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Mahmood says sentencing plans will result in ‘big discount in variety of ladies going to jail’
Mahmood tells MPs that the Gauke proposals will result in “an enormous discount within the variety of ladies going to jail”. She goes on:
Roughly two thirds go in for sentences of lower than one yr. Lots of these ladies are victims of home abuse. In future, we anticipate the numbers to drop very, very considerably, and I do know we are going to make progress in that regard.
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Mahmood rejects declare that adjustments will make sentencing system much less clear
Again within the Commons Desmond Swayne (Con) complained that that present sentences are a “fiction” as a result of the period of time spent in jail is way lower than the sentence learn out in courtroom. He stated these reforms would make this worse.
Mahmood stated that Swayne was improper, and that David Gauke, who wrote the report, agrees with Swayne in regards to the significance of transparency in sentencing.
One of many suggestions within the Gauke report says:
Authorities ought to think about easy methods to make sentencing outcomes as specific and unambiguous as doable, maybe by way of a mixture of steerage, nationwide and tailor-made communications and engagement.
Right here is the Ministry of Justice’s information launch summing up its response to the Gauke assessment on sentencing.
Mahmood says sentencing plans will result in ‘big discount in variety of ladies going to jail’
Mahmood tells MPs that the Gauke proposals will result in “an enormous discount within the variety of ladies going to jail”. She goes on:
Roughly two thirds go in for sentences of lower than one yr. Lots of these ladies are victims of home abuse. In future, we anticipate the numbers to drop very, very considerably, and I do know we are going to make progress in that regard.
Josh Babarinde, the Liberal Democrats’ justice spokesperson, stated his get together can be pushing for ensures that home abusers can be excluded from the early launch provisons. However, total, he was supportive of the federal government, and he condemned the Tories for enjoying politics with this subject.
Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, responded to Mahmood’s assertion. He restated his declare that the federal government is decriminalising some offences. (See 9.24am.) He informed MPs:
Ought to violent and prolific criminals be on the streets or behind bars? I feel they need to be behind bars. For all of the Justice secretary’s rhetoric, the substance of her assertion couldn’t be clearer. She’s OK, her get together is OK, with criminals terrorising our streets and tormenting our nation.
In response, Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, stated the Tories ought to be apologosing for leaving the jail system “on the snapping point”.
Mahmood confirms she is going to think about case for obligatory chemical castration for intercourse offenders
A lot of what’s within the sentencing assessment has been effectively trailed upfront, but it surely additionally contained a plan to increase using chemical castration. This made the Solar splash at present. It is a helpful piece of reports administration as a result of the Solar has devoted far extra space to the chemical castration plan, which is prone to have an effect on a small variety of offenders, and much much less house to the primary thrust of the plan, offenders spending much less time in jail, which is prone to have an effect on way more folks and which runs counter to the Solar’s default ‘lock ‘em all up’ strategy to penal coverage.
That is what Mahmood stated in regards to the plan in her assertion.
The assessment has really useful we proceed a pilot of so-called medicine to handle problematic sexual arousal. I’ll go additional with a nationwide roll out, starting in two areas protecting 20 prisons, and I’m exploring whether or not mandating the strategy is feasible. In fact, it’s vital that this strategy is taken alongside psychological interventions that concentrate on different causes of offending, energy and management.
Shabana Mahmood provides assertion to MPs on sentencing assessment
Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, is making a press release to MPs now in regards to the findings of the sentencing assessment, and the federal government’s response to it. (See 9.24am.)
She began by declaring {that a} yr in the past at present Rishi Sunak known as the overall election. She stated that Sunak known as the election then as a result of the prisons had been full, and he was about to must implement an early launch scheme.
‘Extraordinarily excessive’ asylum preliminary refusal charges leaving folks ‘trapped in limbo’, charity says
The Dwelling Workplace report on asylum figures additionally reveals that the proportion of claims being granted at preliminary decison has fallen under 50%. The speed was 61% within the yr ending March 2024, however fell to 49% within the yr ending March 2025.
Commenting on these figures, Louise Calvey, government director at Asylum Issues, a charity, stated this implies refusal charges are “extraordinarily excessive”. She went on:
The issue turns into extraordinarily clear when you dig into the figures: for instance, we’ve seen over 4,000 refusals of Afghan nationals within the final six months beneath this authorities, up from simply over 700 within the final six months. Individuals fleeing from a rustic that’s fairly clearly unsafe, with apparent safety wants, are being refused at big charges.
The federal government seems to be making an attempt to clear the backlog with quick refusals, however when virtually half of refused claims are granted on attraction, it appears shoddy and rushed determination making is leaving individuals who might be getting on with rebuilding their lives trapped in limbo, banned from working, typically trapped in motels, whereas merely shifting the backlog figures into a distinct column on a spreadsheet.
Asylum claims hit report excessive of 109,000 in yr ending March 2025, Dwelling Workplace figures present
Asylum claims had been at a report stage within the yr ending March 2025, reaching 109,000, in line with Dwelling Workplace figures revealed at present.
The Dwelling Workplace says:
-109,000 folks claimed asylum within the yr ending March 2025, regarding 85,000 instances, 17% greater than within the yr ending March 2024 and better than the earlier recorded peak of 103,000 in 2002
-the variety of folks claiming asylum has virtually doubled since 2021
-in 2024, slightly below a 3rd of asylum seekers had arrived within the UK on a small boat and barely greater than a 3rd had travelled to the UK on a visa
-in 2024 the UK acquired the fifth largest variety of asylum seekers within the EU+, after Germany, Spain, Italy and France
Tories says it’s ‘outrageous’ ministers will not reveal lecturers pay award determine to MPs this morning, however will publish it later
Catherine McKinnell, an training minister, has informed MPs that the federal government will announce the pay award for lecturers in England this afternoon. It will likely be introduced within the type of a written assertion. McKinnell stated:
This afternoon we are going to announce the lecturers pay award, which would be the earliest announcement for a decade, as a result of we perceive the significance of giving faculties certainty, giving them time to plan their budgets and making certain they’ll recruit and retain the knowledgeable lecturers our youngsters want. The secretary of state’s written ministerial assertion will probably be popping out this afternoon.
She was responding to an pressing query tabled by the shadow training secretary, Laura Trott, who stated it was “outrageous” that ministers weren’t keen to disclose the pay award determine within the chamber this morning. She stated:
That is completely outrageous. It’s astonishing that we’ve needed to summon the federal government to the benches at present and so they can’t even inform us what pay rise they’re going to get and whether or not it’s going to be funded. That isn’t permitting us to scrutinise this on this home.
All of this within the remaining two weeks that headteachers up and down the nation must resolve whether or not to make lecturers redundant in time for September. The truth is, sadly, many colleges can have already made a tough determination to let good lecturers go. These are job losses on her watch because of her incapability to offer faculties with the readability that they want.
Priti Patel, the shadow overseas secretary, has posted a message on social media claiming that the injunction blocking the Chagos Islands deal is a “humiliation” for Keir Starmer.
Labour’s Chagos Give up Deal is dangerous for our defence and safety pursuits, dangerous for British taxpayers and dangerous for British Chagossians. Immediately’s authorized intervention is a humiliation for Keir Starmer and David Lammy.
Excessive courtroom begins listening to over injunction blocking Chagos Islands deal
A excessive courtroom listening to over a last-minute block on the federal government from concluding its deal on the Chagos Islands has begun, PA Media stories. PA says the listening to on the Royal Courts of Justice in central London, earlier than Mr Justice Chamberlain, started shortly after 10.35am. The listening to comes after an injunction was granted by a distinct decide at 2.25am.
David Lammy, the overseas secretary, has posted a message on social media condemning the killing of two Israeli embassy workers in Washington. He stated:
Horrified by the killing of two Israeli Embassy workers in DC.
We condemn this appalling, antisemitic crime.
Our ideas are with the victims, their households and colleagues at this terrible time.
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How SNP utilizing WFPs subject in Hamilton byelection, the place Labour worries about coming third behind Reform
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Libby Brooks is the Guardian’s Scotland correspondent.
Keir Starmer as but unspecified U-turn on winter gas fee (WFP) got here on the identical day on the Scottish Labour candidate for the essential Hamilton byelection admitted that the problem was arising usually on the doorstep and two days after first minister and SNP chief John Swinney confirmed {that a} common pension age winter heating fee of at the least £100 will probably be launched for Scottish pensioners from St Andrew’s day, 30 November.
In Scotland, the winter gas fee was changed with the pension age winter heating fee (PAWHP) final yr, as a part of the devolution of welfare powers, and the Scottish authorities introduced it might reintroduce common funds final November, in a bid to outstrip Labour forward of the Holyrood elections.
Underneath the Scottish authorities’s plans for the winter, each pensioner family will obtain £100, and a few will obtain £200 or £300 relying on their age and means, with round a million pensioners are anticipated to learn.
Labour canvassers in Hamilton – the place there’s panic that the get together is likely to be pushed into third place by Reform – says that winter gas is arising continuously with voters indignant at Starmer and Rachel Reeves as they wrestle to get traction on extra native points.
This morning on BBC Radio Scotland, the Scottish authorities’s social justice secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville stated:
Pensioners elsewhere within the UK are nonetheless worrying about whether or not they’re going to get this winter gas fee or not, whereas Scotland’s pensioners don’t must.”
Your funds will arrive as a result of the Scottish authorities already stepped in and we didn’t anticipate Labour to flip-flop and eventually change its thoughts.
She added that her authorities was nonetheless ready to see the main points of the announcement and who it is going to apply to earlier than confirming the place the Barnet consequentials from it is going to go.
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