Question follow-through · 20393
Prisoners' Release: Electronic Tagging
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2024 to Question HL2063 on Prisoners' Release: Electronic Tagging, for what reason all SDS40 releases were not tagged before leaving prison.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 23 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2024 to Question HL2063 on Prisoners' Release: Electronic Tagging, for what reason all SDS40 releases were not tagged before leaving prison.
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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23 Dec 2024
Answer published
This Government inherited a criminal justice system on the brink of collapse, and as a result was forced to introduce the emergency SDS40 scheme which allows some individuals to be released 40% of the way through their custodial sentence rather than at 50...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Alcoholic Drinks: Crime
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Prisoner Escorts
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Trials: Standards
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Trials: Standards
23 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to reduce the frequency of ineffective trials that occur as a result of (a) witness and (b) defendant unavailability.
Trials: Standards
23 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the reasons for which the number of cases that have been declared ineffective as a result of poor case preparation has increased since 2021; and what steps she is taking to help
Trials: Standards
23 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of trials overran in 2024.
Legal Aid Agency: Cybercrime
20 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to inform members of the public affected by the cyber attack on the Legal Aid Agency.
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