Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2018 to Question 126465, what estimate his Department made of the cost of providing the information sought.

The Electronic Monitoring service has always been delivered using a contracted infrastructure. My officials have estimated that it would take two members of staff at least one week to design a comparable electronic monitoring service and identify training and other support mechanisms necessary to deliver the service before calculating the cost. This would breach the £850 disproportionate cost grounds threshold