Question follow-through · 106214
Offenders: Electronic Tagging
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many alerts were triggered by alcohol monitoring tags in December 2024; and what proportion of those alerts resulted in enforcement action, including recall to prison and return to court.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 15 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 19 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 22 Jan 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many alerts were triggered by alcohol monitoring tags in December 2024; and what proportion of those alerts resulted in enforcement action, including recall to prison and return to court.
19 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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22 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Department keeps the use of alcohol monitoring under review and has commissioned a programme of evaluations to assess impact on compliance and reoffending. For community sentences, compliance with court‑imposed alcohol bans is high. Published statisti...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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