Offenders: Electronic Tagging
Justice
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many offenders have been electronically tagged in each year since electronic monitoring began; and if he will make a statement.
Jack Straw (Lord Chancellor, Ministry of Justice; Blackburn, Labour)
Information is collected on the number of electronic tagging orders made rather than the number of offenders tagged. The following table details the number of orders made since the electronic monitoring service began in 1999.
| Financial year | Number of orders |
| 1998-99 | 3,452 |
| 1999-2000 | 19,012 |
| 2000-01 | 19,947 |
| 2001-02 | 21,488 |
| 2002-03 | 35,186 |
| 2003-04 | 41,811 |
| 2004-05 | 46,987 |
| 2005-06 | 51,396 |
| 2006-07 | 54,877 |
| 2007-08 | 65,099 |
| 2008-09 | 69,895 |
| April 2009—September 2009 | 34,574 |
About 18,800 subjects are being electronically monitored at any one time, of which 25 per cent. are on bail, 58 per cent. on a court-ordered community sentence, and the remaining 17 per cent. on release from prison on licence.
Since 1999, over 550,000 people have been monitored on a range of electronic monitoring programmes, in the vast majority of cases without incident.