Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, by what date will tagging prior to release from prison be rolled out nationally.

We successfully piloted Install at Source in six prisons enabling people to be fitted with an electronic tag before leaving prison, allowing monitoring to begin immediately and removing the surveillance gap that can arise between release and installation. The pilot demonstrated improved installation success rates and provided evidence and learning to support wider national roll out which begins in December and will enable a majority of those eligible for electronic monitoring to be tagged pre-release.