Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 117283

Electronic Tagging

Tabled: 3 March 2026

Answered: 11 March 2026

Question

Jim Shannon

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost is per electronic monitoring tag; and what the running costs are of those tags.

Answer

Jake Richards

The spend on electronic monitoring contracts in each of the last five financial years is presented in the table below:Year 2021-22£55.6mYear 2022-23£60.4mYear 2023-24£88.0mYear 2024-25£106.8mForecast Year 2025/26£107.8mThe total number of individuals with...

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