LibDem MP Munira Wilson asked the government how many breaches of electronic tagging took place on each day of the last 4 years. Guess the answer…
Justice ministers said:
• Recent data on breaches is being developed for future publication and therefore, cannot be disclosed.
• Data between June 2024 and July 2025 is either not held or of poor quality, due to data quality issues which occurred during/post EM contract migration.
• There is no way to robustly quality assure data on breaches pre-June 2024 due to this being from the historic Capita contract and so is for internal use only.
The government has blocked repeated questions from Tories into tagging breaches from the Labour early release scheme prisoners. Labour has said that effective tagging will prevent these released convicts going where they shouldn’t and bothering their victims…
Tagging tech provider Serco has a questionable record on this. How can you rely on tagging when it is in this state…
Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked John Healey: “Just finally, I mean Andy Burnham has been very clear he wants Britain back in the European Union in his lifetime. Do you?”
The Chancellor replied: “I’m older than Andy Burnham. I don’t expect to see that.”