PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Electronic Tagging (19 April 2023)

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to recommendation eight of HM Inspectorate of Probation's report entitled The use of electronic monitoring as a tool for the Probation Service in reducing reoffending and managing risk, published in January 2022, in how many and what proportion of probation cases HM Prison and Probation Service conducted domestic abuse and safeguarding checks before recommending a sentence or release on electronically monitored curfew in (a) 2021 and (b) 2022.

Asked by:
Jess Phillips (Labour)

The information requested is not held for the period specified. HM Prison and Probation Service mandated that enquiries to police and children’s services should be made in all cases where there is a recommendation for an electronically monitored curfew from April 2022 (in addition to those cases where they were already required).

Answered by:
Damian Hinds (Conservative)
24 April 2023