Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the 15th Report of Session 2017-19 by the Public Accounts Committee, Offender-monitoring tags, HC 458, what estimate his Department has made of the savings generated by outsourcing electronic monitoring compared with the estimated cost of providing that service in-house in each year since 2010.

Electronic monitoring is a vital tool in improving supervision in the community and supports offenders to reform and lead law abiding lives on release.

The Electronic Monitoring service has always been delivered using a contracted infrastructure. Estimating the cost of a public sector delivery model could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.