Apr. 10 2024
Source Page: Fighting retail crime: more actionFound: assaults on retail workers ................................ ................. 14 Expanding the use of electronic
Sep. 07 2023
Source Page: Letter dated 01/09/2023 from Alex Chalk MP to Robert Neill MP regarding launch of the Domestic Abuse Perpetrators on Licence electronic monitoring Project (DAPOL) 2p.Found: from Alex Chalk MP to Robert Neill MP regarding launch of the Domestic Abuse Perpetrators on Licence electronic
Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) This type of community sentencing can have tough conditions attached to it, such as tagging, strict curfews—incidentally - Speech Link
2: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham, Ladywood) on sentences of four years or more—go home up to six months early on electronic monitoring if they are - Speech Link
3: Robert Neill (Con - Bromley and Chislehurst) Now that we have much more effective tagging, curfews and alcohol treatment orders, I think we could - Speech Link
4: Kevin Brennan (Lab - Cardiff West) In their place, we are being offered a vision of electronic monitoring and home detention curfews—a vision - Speech Link
5: Gareth Bacon (Con - Orpington) effectively managed, including electronic monitoring to ensure that curfews of up to 20 hours a day are - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (CON - Cheltenham) They may include the following: first, being made to wear an electronic tag when that is needed for the - Speech Link
2: Shabana Mahmood (LAB - Birmingham, Ladywood) How can he reassure the public that this is not just a green light to offenders? - Speech Link
3: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) On that note, I applaud his expansion of the tagging programme. I have two questions. - Speech Link
4: Danny Kruger (CON - Devizes) I very much support today’s announcement of an expansion of prison capacity and tagging, both of which - Speech Link
5: Vicky Ford (CON - Chelmsford) Can he assure us that those persistent offenders will still be judged? - Speech Link
Written Evidence Feb. 09 2024
Committee: Human Rights (Joint Committee)Found: An advantage of open but closely supervised prison villages, especially for young offenders, is that
Mentions:
1: Andrew Jones (Con - Harrogate and Knaresborough) What progress he has made on improving employment opportunities for ex-offenders. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Jones (Con - Harrogate and Knaresborough) We know that ex-offenders are at high risk of homelessness, particularly immediately on release. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Veterans very often fall on hard times, find themselves in prison and then become ex-offenders. - Speech Link
4: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) The proposed new presumption in favour of extended sentences and the extension of electronic monitoring - Speech Link
5: Edward Timpson (Con - Eddisbury) I welcome my right hon. and learned Friend’s commitment to increase the use of tagging, where appropriate - Speech Link
Oct. 26 2023
Source Page: Multi-agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA) annual reports 2022 to 2023Found: 30Electronic Monitoring GPS “Tagging Experience” and Alcohol Monitoring08MAPPA Statistics for the Humberside
Mar. 21 2024
Source Page: Foreign national offenders on licence, PSS and IS91 policy frameworkFound: Foreign national offenders on licence, PSS and IS91 policy framework
Mar. 21 2024
Source Page: Foreign national offenders on licence, PSS and IS91 policy frameworkFound: Foreign national offenders on licence, PSS and IS91 policy framework
Asked by: Kate Osborne (Labour - Jarrow)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of his Department's contract with Serco for electronic monitoring on the (a) physical and (b) mental wellbeing of people who will be monitored; and what estimate he has made of the number of people monitored under that contract.
Answered by Gareth Bacon - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The priority when it comes to electronic monitoring is public protection, hence why they can be accompanied by tough curfews and exclusion zones. However, Serco’s health and safety policy ensures that the physical and mental wellbeing of those subject to electronic monitoring is also regarded. Serco will conduct wellbeing visits, direct those with an electronic monitoring requirement to organisations offering advice and support where necessary and pay due regard to an individual’s health considerations during the installation of equipment and subsequent monitoring of requirements. Serco’s approach was assessed in their tender response and their performance of this will be assessed and reviewed as part of overall contract management.
We have made sufficient funds available to increase the number of defendants and offenders subject to electronic monitoring at any one time to 25,000 by March 2025. This includes doubling the number of GPS tags available to courts for community orders and suspended sentences to support robust community sentences and supervision.