Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 25 February 2016, HCWS549, what progress her Department has made on procuring new electronic monitoring based on satellite tracking technology; and what the costs of that procurement process have been to date.

The procurement for the supplier of the new Electronic Monitoring Tags is ongoing and we expect to confirm the outcome in due course.

Since April 2016, the cost of procurement activity for the supplier of the new electronic monitoring tags has been £450,000.