Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people with an active electronic monitoring requirement have a device that has been disconnected or not transmitting for (a) 14 days or more and (b) 28 days or more, as at the most recent date for which data is available; and what contractual obligations Serco has to identify and restore those devices.

Statistics on individuals with EM equipment that has not actively communicated for 14 days or more is published in the Electronic Monitoring Quarterly Statistics. The latest statistics up until 30 September 2026 can be accessed here:

Electronic Monitoring Statistics Publication, September 2026 - GOV.UK

For those with EM equipment that has not actively communicated for 28 days or more, as of 30 September 2026, there were 1,309 individuals. This represents a subset of the total not actively communicating for 14 days or more.

Reasons equipment is not actively communicating can be due to non-compliance with the EM order, interference or damage to equipment, technical fault, or power disruption. These will be dealt with accordingly. For example, where an individual is found to have purposefully interfered with or damaged the equipment, a breach will be raised and enforcement action taken, which can include recall to prison.

These figures are subject to the notes and caveats set out within the publication Annex (data tables) which can be found in the above link. It is not classified as Official Statistics, reflecting ongoing work to assess data quality, completeness and methodological consistency before potential inclusion within the regular EM Official Statistics publication.