Electronic Monitoring of Offenders Debate
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Lee Anderson
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Electronic Monitoring of Offenders
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Catherine McKinnell
I share my hon. Friend’s anger. Since taking on this role, I have felt very angry not just with some of the perpetrators and the cases that we see come across our desks, but with the 14 years of failure that left us in the situation we are in. We are working at pace to improve the technology and the application of the tagging system. [Interruption.] The Conservatives chunter from the Opposition Benches, but they wasted £100 million on tags that did not work. We are working to ensure that this scheme is effective, and we are working at pace to pick up the pieces that were left behind.
Lee Anderson (Ashfield) (Reform)
Will the Minister please tell the House how many people who should be wearing an electronic tag are wandering around our communities with no electronic device fitted at all? That should be a simple question.
Catherine McKinnell
That question has a simple answer: the hon. Gentleman will be able to see the data when it is published in January. We have just had data published for the previous three months. The data obviously needs to be verified and accurate. We are not in the business of publishing data that is not robust, and we will publish it in due course in the normal way.