Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021, published on 27 October 2021, how much (a) capital and (b) revenue spending the Government plans to allocate to delivery of the expansion of electronic monitoring in (i) 2022-3, (ii) 2023-4 and (iii) 2024-5.

We will be investing £183m over the next three years to support near doubling the number of people on tags from around 13,500 this year to 25,000 by 2025.

The Spending Review settlement represents the biggest increase to an MoJ budget through a Spending Review in the last 10 years, recognising the importance of crime and justice to the Government’s agenda. The Deputy Prime Minister is developing his plans for allocating this funding and will announce more details in due course.