Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that electronic monitoring tags are available in all sizes and that no one will be required to remain in prison solely because there is no electronic tag that will fit them.

To maintain the integrity of the equipment including various anti-tamper measures and taking account of the necessarily robust nature of the equipment, there is a minimum strap size that the equipment manufacturer has provided. Field staff carry a range of strap sizes with them when conducting installation visits.

Offenders released on home detention curfew (HDC) are still serving the custodial element of their sentence and it is a statutory requirement that the curfew is electronically monitored for at least 9 hours a day. In cases where it is no longer possible to electronically monitor offenders in the community, through no fault of their own, they will be recalled until it is possible for them to monitored in the community.