Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of further increasing the number of convicted offenders subject to electronic tagging.

Electronic Monitoring is an effective criminal justice tool helping probation and police reduce crime, bringing rigour and accountability to supervision, whilst keeping the public safe. For convicted offenders it can be targeted to support rehabilitation, public protection, crime reduction and reparation.

We are investing £183m in tagging over the next three years, nearly doubling the number of people tagged by 2025. This includes an Innovation Fund to test different ways of using existing technology to cut crime and foster the development of new types of tags.

We have expanded our world first Acquisitive Crime Project, it now covers almost half the country and we have undertaken to publish findings from the project evaluation.