Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many of the prisoners released on 1 October remain untagged.

Government reforms will ensure that a record number of prison leavers are subject to electronic monitoring tags on release. The Ministry of Justice publishes Official Statistics on electronic monitoring and on total prisoner releases every three months (as part of the Electronic Monitoring Statistics Quarterly and Offender Management Statistics Quarterly publications).

It is vital that the government and the public have confidence that the information published by the department is fully assured so that it is accurate and not misleading. The requested information forms a subset of the data underpinning total release statistics and electronic monitoring statistics intended for future publication and, therefore, cannot be disclosed.

We will publish the next electronic monitoring statistics, covering the October period, as planned in January 2027. Total prison release statistics for October to December will be published as planned in the Offender Management Statistics Quarterly in April 2027.