Electronic Monitoring: follow-up

Public Accounts Committee Open Inquiry
Opened: 3 Jul 2026 Parliament page
Since 2021, the number of people fitted with Electronic Monitoring (EM) tags has more than doubled, rising from around 10,000 in 2020 to 28,700 in March 2026. Efforts to update the system in 2024 saw early performance issues which led to significant tagging backlogs. Following the implementation of the Sentencing … Read more