§ Mr. ButlerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of electronically tagged offenders have breached the conditions of their sentence; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. John PattenThe electronic monitoring trials involved defendants on bail and not sentenced offenders. As at 16 May the number of defendants who have breached their conditions of bail was as follows:
Total Monitored Breaches 50 28 Electronic monitoring of itself cannot prevent breaches of bail, which are also committed by defendants on bail subject to other conditions, but it does enable even minor breaches to be swiftly detected and recorded.