Jan 21
🕒 #HouseOfLords from 3pm includes:
🟥 age of criminal responsibility
🟥 violence against women and girls
🟥 #SentencingBill
🟥 #ChildrensWellbeingBill
🟥 #HolocaustMemorialBill
➡️ See full schedule and watch online
orlo.uk/lxqWD
ALT Wednesday 21 January, member speaking in the Lords chamber
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Jan 14
📣 Major update: Government scraps plans to name and shame people on community payback schemes
We are delighted that the Government has listened to our campaign and removed Clause 35 from the #SentencingBill in a decision that protects children and families.
ALT Photo showing an adult and child walking across a zebra crossing. At the top left, there is a purple label reading “Major update” and a white label with black text reading “#ScrapClause35.” Below, white text says: “We called on the Government to protect families and children by scrapping plans to name and shame people on Community Payback schemes. They listened.” At the bottom, a bold black box contains white text: “Government scraps plans to name and shame people on community sentences.” The Pact logo appears in the top right corner.
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Jan 12
📃 In bills, line-by-line scrutiny of the #PensionSchemesBill, #CrimeandPolicingBill, and #TerminallyIllAdultsBill continues. Further scrutiny begins on the #BiodiversityBill and #ChildrensBill, and members ‘tidy up’ the #SentencingBill, and #DiegoGarciaBill.
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📃 In bills, further scrutiny of the #DiegoGarciaBill and the #SentencingBill begins, and members continue line by line checks of the #CrimeandPolicingBill, and the #TerminallyIllAdultsBill.
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3 Dec 2025
🕒 #HouseOfLords from 3pm includes:
🟥 careers in the arts
🟥 new build applications
🟥 supply of blood
🟥 SEND funding
🟥 #SentencingBill
➡️ See full schedule and watch online
parliament.uk/business/news/…
ALT Wednesday 3 December, member speaking in the Lords chamber
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1 Dec 2025
📃 In bills, line by line scrutiny of the #TerminallyIllAdultsBill and #SentencingBill at committee stage continues, and members debate the key principles of the #BiodiversityBill at second reading.
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26 Nov 2025
🕒 #HouseOfLords from 3pm includes:
🟥 emergency accommodation for domestic abuse victims
🟥 visas for highly skilled people
🟥 #SentencingBill
🟥 #TobaccoandVapesBill
➡️ See full schedule and watch online
parliament.uk/business/news/…
ALT Wednesday 26 November, member speaking in the Lords chamber
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24 Nov 2025
📃 In bills, the #MentalHealthBill, #BorderSecurityBill and #PlanningBill return to the Lords for consideration of Commons changes. Also, members scrutinise the #DiegoGarciaBill, #SentencingBill, #TobaccoandVapesBill, and #CrimeandPolicingBill.
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14 Nov 2025
Debating the #SentencingBill this week, #JUPG co-chair Lord Tony Woodley raised @Napotheunion concerns around #probation capacity, unpaid work privatisation and operational control of tagging. The former @unitetheunion leader praised previous amendments by @LSRPlaid, @johnmcdonnellMP and @KimJohnsonMP, expressing regret that “none of the concerns were addressed during the debates in the other place, nor has the promised union meeting with Commons Ministers materialised”
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12 Nov 2025
🕒 #HouseOfLords from 3pm includes:
🟥 telemedical abortion access
🟥 Welsh needs-based funding
🟥 cryptocurrencies
🟥 US Caribbean military action
🟥 #SentencingBill
➡️ See full schedule and watch online
parliament.uk/business/news/…
ALT Wednesday 12 November, member speaking in the Lords chamber
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10 Nov 2025
📃 In bills, members scrutinise the #CrimeandPolicingBill, #TobaccoandVapesBill, #TerminallyIllAdultsBill, and #BorderSecurityBill. They will also debate the key purpose of the #SentencingBill, begin 'ping pong' of the #PublicAuthoritiesBill, and ‘tidy up’ the #PlanningBill.
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27 Oct 2025
Thank you @LSRPlaid, @grahamemorris, @KimJohnsonMP, @johnmcdonnellMP & others for raising Napo concerns around the #SentencingBill, which puts huge extra pressure on #probation. We're calling on all MPs to support NC25, NC26 and NC27 on tagging, unpaid work & probation capacity!
26 Oct 2025
On Wednesday, MPs will have their third and final debate on the #SentencingBill before it moves to the Lords.
Although broadly welcomed by justice unions as a rational response to the prison overcrowding crisis, the Bill places yet more pressure on an over-stretched #Probation Service, and concerns remain over tagging and unpaid work orders, both of which will expand rapidly.
To address this, @justiceunions members have tabled three amendments supported by @Napotheunion and @POAUnion – at Committee these were NC2 by @KimJohnsonMP on tagging, NC3 by @johnmcdonnellMP on unpaid work and NC4 by @LSRPlaid on probation capacity.
Because the Minister did not respond to these amendments, they have been retabled and will be debated on Wednesday as NC25, NC26 and NC27. Please ask your MP to support these amendments and consider voting for them if selected.
See below for relevant highlights from 2nd Reading (16 September) and Committee of the whole House (22 October), followed by links to transcripts and briefings
whatson.parliament.uk/event/…🧵1/21
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26 Oct 2025
On Wednesday, MPs will have their third and final debate on the #SentencingBill before it moves to the Lords.
Although broadly welcomed by justice unions as a rational response to the prison overcrowding crisis, the Bill places yet more pressure on an over-stretched #Probation Service, and concerns remain over tagging and unpaid work orders, both of which will expand rapidly.
To address this, @justiceunions members have tabled three amendments supported by @Napotheunion and @POAUnion – at Committee these were NC2 by @KimJohnsonMP on tagging, NC3 by @johnmcdonnellMP on unpaid work and NC4 by @LSRPlaid on probation capacity.
Because the Minister did not respond to these amendments, they have been retabled and will be debated on Wednesday as NC25, NC26 and NC27. Please ask your MP to support these amendments and consider voting for them if selected.
See below for relevant highlights from 2nd Reading (16 September) and Committee of the whole House (22 October), followed by links to transcripts and briefings
whatson.parliament.uk/event/…🧵1/21
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Any new sentencing framework must deliver stability, transparency and, above all, public safety.
The #SentencingBill has now been introduced, but there remain pressing questions around safeguards for victims. They must be addressed.
My full statement: 🔗victimscommissioner.org.uk/n…
2 Sep 2025
Watch Lord Chancellor @ShabanaMahmood introduce the Sentencing Bill.
The Bill sets out reforms to ensure we never run out of prison space for dangerous offenders, that punishment helps cut crime and the public is protected.
Read more: bit.ly/47ksqOA
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3 Sep 2025
Today, I urged the Government to work closely with the Parole Board to protect domestic abuse victims as the Sentencing Bill progresses. Victims must be at the heart of justice reform.
#DomesticAbuse #SentencingBill
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10 Jan 2024
Calling @GarethBaconMP’s £155m budget boast “a 4-year-old announcement dressed up as something new” @ShabanaMahmood insists Govt must ensure new #SentencingBill measures “will not come into effect until there is not one #Probation Delivery Unit still rated as inadequate”
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5 Jan 2024
Great to hear @CommissionerDA on @BBCWomansHour raising concerns about presumption of shorter sentences in the #SentencingBill and the risk to survivors
5 Jan 2024
Today I spoke to @BBCWomansHour about govt's plan to end short jail sentences.
The proposed victim safeguards are overreliant on an under-resourced probation service. Instead, govt must make a clear exemption for domestic abuse perpetrators.
From 15:10⬇️
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001ts…
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Debating the new #SentencingBill, @RichardBurgon highlights how a presumption against short sentences will put “greater pressure on the #probation services” and asks if @AlexChalkChelt will meet to discuss Lord Ramsbotham’s “excellent report” from 2019, People Are Not Things
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16 Nov 2023
The new laws in the Kings Speech do not go far enough to deliver justice for women facing domestic abuse. Read our response to changes to the #SentencingBill and #CriminalJusticeBill and how they will impact on protecting survivors here: ow.ly/ZriB50Q8nKg [2/2]
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16 Nov 2023
After raising serious concerns, we're relieved the #SentencingBill presumption against short sentences won't apply to offenders posing significant harm. But the judiciary & probation service must be equipped to recognise the threat posed by abusers, to assess them as such. [1/2]
"Victim safety is paramount" - the Victims' Commissioner welcomes @MoJGovUK moves to exempt high-risk offenders from the presumption against shorter sentences, but underscores the need for robust pre-sentence reports and a properly resourced Probation Service | 1/2
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