Electronic Tagging

(asked on 22nd May 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were the subject of GPS monitoring as a condition of supervision in each of the eight pilot areas in England and Wales which concluded in 2019; and how many offenders failed to comply with such monitoring.


Answered by
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Robert Buckland
This question was answered on 10th June 2019

A total of 586 tags were issued as part of the GPS pilot which commenced in October 2016 and completed in March 2018. A total of 366 tags were issued to individuals being supervised (i.e. cases where an offender was supervised under statutory supervision by Probation Services, and not including individuals who were on court imposed bail).

An independent qualitative process evaluation of the GPS location monitoring pilot was published in February 2019: ‘Process evaluation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) Electronic Monitoring Pilot - Qualitative findings’: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/process-evaluation-of-the-global-positioning-system-gps-electronic-monitoring-pilot

A quantitative process evaluation of the GPS Pilot containing analysis of Management Information gathered over the course of the pilot is currently undergoing quality assurance and being finalised. This will include information on the number of individuals supervised in each of the police force areas and on compliance.

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