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UK Parliament · Public Bill · No. 3955

Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Act 2025

[As Introduced]
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A Bill to Make provision about sentencing guidelines in relation to pre-sentence reports.

Presented by Shabana Mahmood
supported by Lord Timpson.
✓ Passed into lawPublicCommonsRoyal Assent
Official Ballot · opengovt

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Open Govt visitors' votes554 votes
53% Aye · 29547% No · 259

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MPs' votePassed without division
No division called, Third Reading carried on the voices.

How the Lords voted

1 formal vote in the House of Lords on this bill, newest first.

These are the occasions when peers formally divided and every vote was recorded. Most decisions in the Lords, including on many amendments, are agreed without a recorded vote, so they do not appear here.

  • 4 June 2025Government won

    Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames moved amendment 2, in clause 1, page 1, line 5, after “not” to insert “without good cause”.

    Peers' vote195 peers
    Content · 65Not content · 130

    Labour 0 content, 118 not content · Liberal Democrat 51 content, 0 not content · Crossbench 5 content, 9 not content · Conservative 3 content, 0 not content · Democratic Unionist Party 0 content, 2 not content · Green Party 2 content, 0 not content · Non-affiliated 1 content, 1 not content · Plaid Cymru 2 content, 0 not content · Bishops 1 content, 0 not content

Lords votes last updated 18 October 2026. Source: UK Parliament Lords Votes API.

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Shabana Mahmood
Shabana Mahmood
LabourBirmingham Ladywood

Bill passage

Commons

  • 1st reading1 Apr 2025
  • 2nd reading22 Apr 2025
  • 3rd reading30 Apr 2025

Lords

  • 1st reading1 May 2025
  • 2nd reading7 May 2025
  • Committee stage19 May 2025
  • Report stage4 Jun 2025
  • 3rd reading10 Jun 2025
Royal Assent19 Jun 2025