A Bill to make provision for the pardoning, or otherwise setting aside, of cautions and convictions for specified sexual offences that have now been abolished; and for connected purposes.
House of Commons
3 May 2017
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The bill would let people who have cautions or convictions for sexual offences that are no longer offences have those records pardoned or set aside. It creates the rules and processes to carry out these pardons or removals and related administrative steps, focusing on offences that have now been abolished. It aims to lessen the ongoing impact of historic, now-defunct offences on individuals’ lives.
The bill has completed the first reading in the Commons and had second readings on 21 October 2016 and 20 January 2017; it is currently at the second reading stage in the Commons.
In the recorded closure motion for the second reading on 21 October 2016, 57 MPs voted Aye and 0 No. The Labour (Co‑op) and SNP supported the measure in the data provided; other parties are shown as mixed or with no recorded votes in this snapshot.
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Based on 1 recorded vote • Sorted by % Aye
This Bill was expected to resume its second reading debate on Friday 20 January 2017.
However, as a General Election has now been called and Parliament will be dissolved from 3 May 2017, the Bill falls and no further action will be taken.
