Ministry of Justice written question – answered at on 21 February 2024.
Nadia Whittome
Labour, Nottingham East
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish data on the gender of people ordered to wear an alcohol monitoring device in each year since 2020.
Gareth Bacon
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice
Alcohol monitored, electronic monitoring subjects by gender, England and Wales, at month's end, from March 2021. Source: AMS Contractor data. | ||||
Mar-21 | Mar-22 | Mar-23 | ||
Males and Females | ||||
Number | Females | 7 | 116 | 248 |
Number | Males | 28 | 778 | 1,991 |
Number | Other | .. | 4 | 9 |
Total number | Total | 35 | 898 | 2,248 |
Males and Females | ||||
Proportion of total | Females | 20% | 13% | 11% |
Proportion of total | Males | 80% | 87% | 89% |
Proportion of total | Other | .. | 0% | 0% |
These figures are drawn from administrative data systems provided by contractors. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent.
‘Other’ refers to instances in which data on gender has not been received, or the individual has not disclosed their gender or identifies as non-binary.
The table includes individuals wearing an alcohol monitoring device and subject to an Alcohol Abstinence Monitoring Requirement (AAMR) as a requirement of a community order or suspended sentence order, and individuals subject to an Alcohol Monitoring on Licence (AML) condition following custody.
AAMR is a community-based sentence requirement for alcohol related offending which imposes an alcohol ban for up to 120 days, compliance is electronically monitored using an alcohol tag. AAMR was introduced in Wales in October 2020 and was expanded to all England and Wales in March 2021.
AML allows probation to impose an additional licence condition that either bans drinking alcohol or limits use, monitored by an alcohol tag. Rollout in England and Wales was completed in June 2022.
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