Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Justice – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 23 November 2010.
David Hanson
Shadow Minister (Treasury)
2:30,
23 November 2010
The crimes of child abduction, gross indecency with children, sexual activity with a child under 13, sexual assault of a female and sexual assault of a male have all attracted custodial sentences of six months or under in the past year. Will the Lord Chancellor give a commitment that under the sentencing review none of those crimes will be subject to community-based sentences, as he has proposed potentially in comments that he has made to date?