Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on increasing the number of people tagged as a condition of a court order and supervised by community rehabilitation companies or successor bodies.

There are a number of court orders which may result in the electronic tagging of individuals. Whilst the law allows the electronic monitoring of compliance with these orders, at present it is primarily imposed to monitor compliance with curfew requirements.

Sentencing in individual cases is a matter for the courts, taking into account the circumstances of each case and imposing a sentence which is proportionate to the seriousness of the offence.