Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people released under the Sentencing Act 2026 since 1 October 2026 were exempted from the presumption that offenders are tagged on release; and what categories of reason were recorded for those exemptions.

The Ministry of Justice routinely publishes Official Statistics on electronic monitoring and on prisoner releases, as part of the Electronic Monitoring Statistics Quarterly and Offender Management Statistics Quarterly publications. The requested information forms a subset of the data underpinning total release statistics and monitoring statistics intended for future publication and, therefore, cannot be disclosed.