Electronic Monitoring statistics: FOI release

Information requested

• The number of individuals fitted with an electronic device.
• The number of individuals fitted with an electronic device as a condition of court bail.
• The number of individuals fitted with an electronic device as a result of court order.
• The number of individuals fitted with an electronic device as a result of a Restriction of Liberty order.
• The number of individuals fitted with an electronic device as part of Home Detention Curfew.
• The number of individuals fitted with an electronic device as a condition of early release.
• The number of individuals fitted with an electronic device as a license condition following release from custody.
• The number of individuals fitted with an electronic device as a condition of immigration bail, managed by the home office.
• The number of individuals fitted with an electronic device due to monitoring requirements as a result of Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements.
• The number of individuals fitted with an electronic device as a result of being granted bail by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission.
• The number of individuals fitted with an electronic device as they are subject to Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures.

With all statistic to be broken down by Sheriffdom, local authority, gender, age and crime and offence category, where appropriate.

Response

I enclose a copy of most of the information you requested in table format.

The following tables provide statistics broken down by sheriffdom, local authority, gender and age of individuals currently monitored for court disposals and forms of prison release licences as on 2 October 2023.

Number of individuals and gender

	Female	Identify as Female	Identify as Male	Male	Neutral	Total
Bail with electronic monitoring	30	0	0	345	0	375
Restricted Movement Requirement as part of a Community Payback Order	8	0	0	62	0	70
Restriction of Liberty Order	131	1	1	950	1	1084
Home Detention Curfew (5 of which are released from a prison in another jurisdiction)	9	0	0	60	0	69
Parole licence	2	0	0	119	0	121
Movement Restriction Condition applied by Children’s Hearing Panel	0	0	0	5	0	5
Total	180	1	1	1541	1	1724

Number by age group

	Under 18	18-20	31-40	Over 40	21-25	26-30	Total
Bail with electronic monitoring	23	59	111	64	52	66	375
Restricted Movement Requirement as part of a Community Payback Order	1	6	23	19	12	9	70
Restriction of Liberty Order	9	65	341	347	154	168	1084
Home Detention Curfew (5 of which are released from a prison in another jurisdiction)	0	0	22	25	9	13	69
Parole licence	0	1	29	62	13	16	121
Movement Restriction Condition applied by Children’s Hearing Panel	5	0	0	0	0	0	5
Total	38	131	526	517	240	272	1724

By Sheriffdom (for all individuals with a court order with electronic monitoring on 2 October 2023)

	Restriction of Liberty order	Restricted Movement Requirement as part of a Community Payback Order	Bail with electronic monitoring	Total
Glasgow and Strathkelvin	250	37	30	317
Grampian, Highlands & Islands	83	0	55	138
Lothian and Borders	133	14	68	215
North Strathclyde	138	9	83	230
South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway	247	10	90	347
Tayside Central and Fife	228	0	45	273
Sheriff Appeal Court	2	0	1	3
High Court	3	0	3	6

By local authority area

Aberdeen City	78
Aberdeenshire	44
Angus	30
Argyll & Bute	17
Clackmannanshire	34
Dumfries & Galloway	48
Dundee City	57
East Ayrshire	38
East Dunbartonshire	16
East Lothian	19
East Renfrewshire	13
Edinburgh, City of	96
Falkirk	30
Fife	104
Glasgow City	320
Highland	26
Inverclyde	27
Midlothian	32
Moray	12
Na h'Eileanan Siar	3
North Ayrshire	64
North Lanarkshire	156
Orkney Islands	3
Perth & Kinross	31
Renfrewshire	59
Scottish Borders	34
Shetland Islands	0
South Ayrshire	26
South Lanarkshire	174
Stirling	18
West Dunbartonshire	35
West Lothian	58
Not known	22
Total	1724

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 do not have the information are explained in the Annex to this letter.

Annex
The Scottish Government does not hold the information requested

The Scottish Government does not have the information you have asked for because statistics for crime and offence categories for those electronically monitored on 2 October 2023 is not held by Scottish Government as part of this same data set. However, the criminal proceedings national statistics provide some data on the number of individuals receiving an restriction of liberty order by offence type. https://www.gov.scot/publications/criminal-proceedings-scotland-2020-21/

The Scottish Government does not have information you have asked for on the number of individuals fitted with an electronic device due to monitoring requirements “as a result of Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements”, as information is held categorised by the relevant order or licence which provides the legal authority to manage the individual, not by other management arrangements that may be in place.

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.

You also requested the following information:

• The number of individuals fitted with an electronic device as a condition of immigration bail, managed by the home office.
• The number of individuals fitted with an electronic device as a result of being granted bail by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission.
• The number of individuals fitted with an electronic device as they are subject to Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures.

These are reserved matters and as such no statistical information is held by the Scottish Government.

About FOI

The Scottish Government is committed to publishing all information released in response to Freedom of Information requests. View all FOI responses at http://www.gov.scot/foi-responses.