Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders have been tagged with sobriety tags in England since their launch in March 2021.

While ability to impose AAMR orders went live in England on 31 March 2021, data are available from 1 April 2021. There were 2,383 alcohol monitoring orders and licence conditions imposed from 1 April 2021 to 17 December 2021 across England and Wales. The compliance rate with these orders was 97.4%. The majority of these were for community sentences but the figure includes a small number of alcohol monitoring on licence cases for prison leavers, which commenced on 17 November 2021 for offenders being supervised in Wales and will be rolled out to England this summer. Under the ambitious £183m plan to expand the use of electronic monitoring, alcohol tags will have been used on more than 12,000 prison leavers by 2024/2025. We are unable to give a specific figure for offenders electronically monitored with an alcohol monitoring tag in England alone.