Question follow-through · 5859

Prisoners' Release: Electronic Tagging

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners released under the early release scheme have been electronically tagged.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body: Ministry of Justice
Tabled: 4 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 8 Oct 2024
Answer: 16 Oct 2024 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026

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Recorded timeline

4 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners released under the early release scheme have been electronically tagged.
8 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Oct 2024
Answer published
Data on SDS40 releases forms a subset of data intended for future publication. We do not yet hold centrally collated data on how many prisoners released under SDS40 have been electronically tagged.Electronic Monitoring is only one part of a range of strin...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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