HC Deb 02 April 1990 vol 170 c434W
Mr. Steinberg

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give a summary of the results of the recent electronic tagging experiment.

Mr. John Patten

The trials of electronic monitoring in three areas have yet to be fully evaluated, but it is already clear that the technology works and is extremely effective in detecting any violations of bail conditions, however slight.

We expect to make available later this year an evaluation of the outcome of these trials.