questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to help ensure that magistrates’ courts hand down proportionate sentences for environmental crime.
answerText: Sentencing in individual cases is a matter for the courts. Parliament has provided the courts with a broad range of sentencing powers to deal effectively and appropriately with offenders, including discharges, fines, community sentences, suspended sentenc...
heading: Environment Protection: Sentencing