# MP Questions Court Backlog Timetable and Sentencing Guidelines

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120672610606538973
- Source account: [@DeepLeaksHQ](https://x.com/DeepLeaksHQ)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:08
- Published: 2026-11-12
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ADtS5kTArJin/en/mp-questions-court-backlog-timetable-and-sentencing-guidelines

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ADtS5kTArJin/en/mp-questions-court-backlog-timetable-and-sentencing-guidelines) Speaker, I don't pretend that cutting the court backlog is easy, although it will be quick.

[0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ADtS5kTArJin/en/mp-questions-court-backlog-timetable-and-sentencing-guidelines?t=4) But the Secretary of State owes the country a plan and a timetable for when the backlog is actually going to fall.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ADtS5kTArJin/en/mp-questions-court-backlog-timetable-and-sentencing-guidelines?t=11) This morning, she was repeatedly asked but refused to give an answer.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ADtS5kTArJin/en/mp-questions-court-backlog-timetable-and-sentencing-guidelines?t=15) So can she tell the country now, when will the court backlog begin to fall?

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ADtS5kTArJin/en/mp-questions-court-backlog-timetable-and-sentencing-guidelines?t=21) By what date does her department forecast it falling?

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ADtS5kTArJin/en/mp-questions-court-backlog-timetable-and-sentencing-guidelines?t=25) And why will she not take up the 2,500 additional sitting days offered time and time again by the Lady Chief Justice?

[0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ADtS5kTArJin/en/mp-questions-court-backlog-timetable-and-sentencing-guidelines?t=35) And lastly, turning to the new sentencing guidelines that's been published alongside this statement, which will make a custodial sentence less likely for, and I quote, "ethnic minorities, cultural minorities, and faith minority communities."

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ADtS5kTArJin/en/mp-questions-court-backlog-timetable-and-sentencing-guidelines?t=51) Why is the Justice Secretary enshrining this double standard, this two-tier approach to sentencing?

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ADtS5kTArJin/en/mp-questions-court-backlog-timetable-and-sentencing-guidelines?t=58) This is an inversion of the rule of law.

[1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ADtS5kTArJin/en/mp-questions-court-backlog-timetable-and-sentencing-guidelines?t=61) We on this side of the House believe in equality under the law.

[1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ADtS5kTArJin/en/mp-questions-court-backlog-timetable-and-sentencing-guidelines?t=66) Why doesn't she?