- Unduly Lenient Sentence Scheme
- The following is an extract from the Adjournment debate on 23 November 2022.
- In 2021, 151 cases were referred to the Court of Appeal under the ULS scheme, and sentences were increased in 106 cases. That is a rate of 70%.[Official Report, 23 November 2022, Vol. 723, c. 414.]Letter of correction from the Solicitor General, the hon. and learned Member for Mid Dorset and North Poole (Michael Tomlinson).An error has been identified in my response to my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent North (Jonathan Gullis).The correct information should have been:
- In 2021, 155 cases were referred to the Court of Appeal under the ULS scheme, and sentences were increased in 106 cases. That is a rate of 68%.Unduly Lenient Sentencing SchemeThe following is an extract from oral questions to the Attorney General on 7 December 2022.
- My hon. Friend knows a lot about the scheme and has long-term interest in it. Of those 151 cases, only eight were referred by victims and a further nine by a member of a victim’s family, and that is not just an aberration for that year; it is a consistent trend. We regularly publish updates on the outcome of these sentences, and the revised victims code includes details of the ULS scheme.[Official Report, 7 December 2022, Vol. 724, c. 327.]Letter of correction from the Solicitor General, the hon. and learned Member for Mid Dorset and North Poole (Michael Tomlinson).An error has been identified in my response to my hon. Friend the Member for Torbay (Kevin Foster).The correct information should have been:
- My hon. Friend knows a lot about the scheme and has long-term interest in it. Of those 155 cases, only eight were referred by victims and a further nine by a member of a victim’s family, and that is not just an aberration for that year; it is a consistent trend. We regularly publish updates on the outcome of these sentences, and the revised victims code includes details of the ULS scheme.