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Prisoners' Release: Electronic Tagging

Asked by Robert JenrickReform UKMinistry of JusticeTabled Answered 20 May 2025UIN 52249

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders released on licence were not tagged in accordance with their licence conditions in the last 12 months for which data is available; and what proportion of that total were due to (a) equipment sh

Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin

The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost by manually going through each individual’s record on the Electronic Monitoring (EM) supplier’s and probation service’s systems where this detail is recorded.

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