Policy papers and consultations

Supporting documentation for legislation which will quash the wrongful convictions of those affected by the Post Office Horizon IT scandal.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 20 March 2024

• Bill overview factsheet: Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill

  What the Post Office (Horizon System) Offence Bill is going to do The…

• Horizon scandal factsheet: Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill

  The background of the Horizon Scandal In 1996 the Post Office piloted new…

• European Convention on Human Rights Memorandum: Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill

  Summary of the Bill The Bill is being introduced to meet the government’s…

• Financial redress factsheet: Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill

  Compensation scheme overview Group Litigation Order (GLO) scheme In 2016 a…

• Equalities statement: Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill

  Introduction From the mid-1990s, hundreds of sub-postmasters and…

These factsheets provide more information about the Criminal Justice Bill which was introduced in the House of Commons on 14 November 2023.

• From: Home Office and 1 others
• Updated: 23 February 2024

• Criminal Justice Bill: Overarching factsheet

  What are we going to do? protect the public and keep our neighbourhoods…

• Criminal Justice Bill: Antisocial behaviour

  What are we going to do? We are going to make our streets and…

• Criminal Justice Bill: Encouraging or assisting serious self-harm

  What are we going to do? The Online Safety Act 2023 gave partial effect to…

• Criminal Justice Bill: Intimate images

  What are we going to do? We are creating a range of new criminal offences…

• Criminal Justice Bill: Knife crime

  What are we going to do? We are going to ensure that the police and the…

• Criminal Justice Bill: Nuisance begging and rough sleeping

  What are we going to do? Replace the outdated Vagrancy Act 1824 with a…

• Criminal Justice Bill: Police integrity

  What are we going to do? We are introducing new measures to uphold…

• Criminal Justice Bill: Police powers

  What are we going to do? Improve public safety and public confidence by…

• Criminal Justice Bill: Proceeds of crime

  What are we going to do? Criminals should never benefit from the proceeds…

• Criminal Justice Bill (MoJ): Sentencing measures

  What are we going to do? Grooming behaviour (including gangs) We are…

Equalities statements relating to the Criminal Justice Bill.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 30 January 2024

• Criminal Justice Bill: criminal law equalities statement

  Intimate image abuse Introduction 1. Developments in IT and electronic…

• Criminal Justice Bill: prisons and offender management equalities statement

  Polygraph testing (counter-terrorism) Policy summary 1. Section 28 of the…

• Criminal Justice Bill: sentencing equalities statement

  Introduction 1. Building on action the government has already taken, the…

The government has introduced the Victims and Prisoners Bill into Parliament.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 22 January 2024

Documents relating to the Crime and Justice Bill introduced in the House of Commons on 14 November 2023.

• From: Home Office and 1 others
• Updated: 19 January 2024

Impact assessments relating to the Criminal Justice Bill.

• From: Home Office and 1 others
• Updated: 20 December 2023

These documents relate to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022.

• From: Home Office and 1 others
• Updated: 29 June 2023

Government response to recommendation 8 of the Law Commission's review of hate crime legislation.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 25 April 2023

Update on government’s progress tackling disparities, including progress in response to the Lammy Review.

• From: Ministry of Justice and 1 others
• Updated: 11 February 2020

This consultation seeks the views on the impact of the proposed closure of Cambridge Magistrates’ Court.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 24 July 2018

The Voyeurism (Offences) (No. 2) Bill was introduced into the House of Commons on 21 June 2018.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 21 June 2018

The Lammy Review will look at the way the Criminal Justice System deals with young people and adults from BAME backgrounds.

• From: Lammy Review and 1 others
• Updated: 8 September 2017

This is a national consultation on the provision of the court and tribunal estate in England and Wales.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 24 July 2017

We are seeking views on how the discount rate of damages or compensation for personal injury claims is set and how the money is paid.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 30 March 2017

This action plan is a commitment to develop a more strategic and coherent approach to the use of restorative justice in England and Wales.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 3 March 2017

This consultation proposes that Camberwell Green and Hammersmith magistrates’ courts are closed.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and 1 others
• Updated: 8 February 2017

Seeks views on changes to the justice system.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and 1 others
• Updated: 8 February 2017

This command paper sets out the government’s response to the Justice Committee’s Fourth Report of Session 2016 to 2017 on Restorative Justice.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 8 November 2016

Sets out a proposal to return cases from the Wisbech area to Cambridgeshire, to be heard at Peterborough magistrates' and Crown courts.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 1 March 2016

To meet the needs of victims and save public money we need a criminal justice system that is less bureaucratic and costs less to run.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 8 May 2015

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government