Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) arrests, (b) charges and (c) convictions have been made using data from the Acquisitive Crime GPS tagging programme in each year since its introduction.

Between 12 April 2021 and 15 November 2024, there were 213 charges and 152 convictions using the data from the Acquisitive Crime project.

The Department does not hold data on the dates of these charges and convictions or on the number of arrests, this data is held by individual police forces.

The objective of this project is not solely to catch and convict individuals for further offences, but to deter them from committing crime and reduce long term reoffending, by ensuring probation officers can continuously monitor offenders’ whereabouts at all times. The first robust evaluation of the effectiveness of this project will be published next year.