Sentencing for violence against women and girls
There will be a debate on sentencing for violence against women and girls in Westminster Hall on 1 February 2023 at 14:30. This debate will be led by Cherilyn Mackrory MP.

A debate on e-petitions 300239 and 327566 relating to grooming gangs is scheduled for Wednesday 3 February 2021. The Member leading the debate will be Tom Hunt MP.
Debate on petitions relating to grooming gangs (201 KB , PDF)
Two e-petitions, Release the Home Office’s Grooming Gang Review in full (300239) and We the British People Request a Public Inquiry into Grooming Gangs (327566), are calling for Home Office action relating to group-based child sexual exploitation.
In 2018 the then Home Secretary Sajid Javid said the Home Office planned to conduct an inqury into the characterstics and contexts associated with grooming by gangs. However, in 2019 the press began to report that the review had been “shelved” and would not be published.
In 2020 the Independent newspaper reported that the Home Office had turned down a Freedom of Information request relating to the research on the grounds that the information was exempt as it concerned the development of government policy.
Following the publication of the Independent’s article, E-petition 300239 was launched on the parliamentary petitions website calling on the Government to publish the research in full. The petition received 131,625 signatures before closing. E-petition 327566 is calling for a public inquiry on grooming gangs and has so far attracted nearly 30,000 signatures.
In its May 2020 response to e-petition 300239, the Government said it would publish a paper on group-based child sexual exploitation later in 2020. The paper, Group based child sexual exploitation characteristics of offending, was published in December 2020, followed by a new Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy in January 2021.
Debate on petitions relating to grooming gangs (201 KB , PDF)
There will be a debate on sentencing for violence against women and girls in Westminster Hall on 1 February 2023 at 14:30. This debate will be led by Cherilyn Mackrory MP.
A Bill to prevent abuse of the UK economy and support enterprise by reforming Companies House and limited partnerships, and strengthen the broader response to economic crime.
The Government abolished the much criticised sentence of imprisonment for public protection (IPP) in 2012. However, the change was not made retrospective. On 30 September 2022 there were 2,890 IPP prisoners in custody. Pressure for change has continued.