Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has produced reports on the effectiveness of the delivery of contracts by Capita for electronic monitoring.

Electronic monitoring is a vital tool in improving supervision in the community and supports offenders to reform and lead law abiding lives on release.

Capita’s performance against the Electronic Monitoring contract’s service levels is published in the Ministry of Justice Community Performance Quarterly Management Information release. The latest information for July to September 2017 is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/community-performance-quarterly-mi-update-to-september-2017.

Capita performance has been included in each of the five releases since July 2016.