Stalkers: Electronic Tagging - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 2:51 pm on 11 June 2018.

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Photo of Baroness Brinton Baroness Brinton Party Chair, Liberal Democrats 2:51, 11 June 2018

In 2000 Tony Blair proposed that stalkers should have electronic tagging, but 18 years on we are still waiting. There are many victims of stalking, including Tracey Morgan, who suffered over a decade of being harassed and stalked by her former partner, and said:

“When he is released, my sentence starts”.

The key thing about the proposed new tags is that they give proximity alerts to victims, which is an important reassurance. Can the Minister assure us that the results of the consultation will happen speedily, and that the scheme will be introduced to give reassurance to victims of stalking across the country?