Question follow-through · 16425
Offenders: Electronic Tagging
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment has been made of the effectiveness of electronic monitoring tagging schemes for offenders.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 7 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 16 Jul 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment has been made of the effectiveness of electronic monitoring tagging schemes for offenders.
9 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jul 2026
Answer published
The Ministry of Justice has published a number of evaluations examining the effectiveness of different forms of electronic monitoring. The Acquisitive Crime Impact Evaluation (2025) found that acquisitive crime offenders serving custodial sentences of 12 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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Surrogacy: Parental Orders
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