Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the Department has assessed the cost of providing the additional electronic tags required as a result of the Sentencing Act 2026.

As part of Spending Review 2025, the Department assessed the impact of the then Sentencing Bill on the electronic monitoring (EM) caseload. To manage the projected increase in demand for EM, up to £105 million of additional funding was allocated to the EM service across the Spending Review period.