FOI/202500450962 · FOI · not held
Impositions and breaches of Electronic Monitoring Orders: FOI release
Information requested
1. In each year since 2019/20, including the current year to date, how many Electronic Monitoring Orders have been imposed.
2. In each year since 2019/20, including the current year to date, how many Electronic Monitoring Orders have been breached. Please provide this as a raw number but also as a percentage of all orders.
Response
1. In each year since 2019/20, including the current year to date, the number of Electronic Monitoring orders imposed is shown in the following table.
Year Number of Electronic Monitoring Orders Imposed 2019/20 4798 2020/21 3539 2021/22 3940 2022/23 5082 2023/24 5801 2024/25 (to January 2025) 5872
2. While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested. The reasons why we don't have the information are explained below.
Reasons for not providing information
The Scottish Government does not hold the information requested
The Scottish Government does not have the information you have asked for regarding the number of breaches of electronic monitoring orders recorded since 2019/20 because electronic monitoring covers a number of different orders and licences across the justice system. While compliance information is always provided back to the relevant responsible authority (e.g. parole board, prison or court) the questions of how they then respond, and whether they agree that a breach has occurred is a matter for the responsible authority for that order. As such, I hereby provide you with formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.
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Detected exemption language
As such, I hereby provide you with formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.
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