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All of that is additional. Each of those hearings is an extra hearing for the process; it is not absorbed anywhere else in the process, so there is a resource requirement.
We have proposed that monitoring be used in a range of areas—for example, for people on bail and people coming out of prison. Electronic monitoring is an extra tool, but the issue is about more than just the technology.
They are using it in a limited number of cases, where it is the appropriate charge, such as when there is an extra-territorial element that cannot be addressed through any other legislative tool.
Amendment 65 is materially similar—it is almost identical—but it includes an extra caveat, which says: “unless the prosecutor considers that it would be inappropriate to do so.”
This is a real opportunity to declutter some of the extra workload that we place on them, if we are to give them the time to deliver the additional work that will arise from the Promise and the bill.As I said, this is a probing amendment and I am interested to hear what the Government’s approach is to the issue.
It would implement a catch-up mechanism that would require the Scottish ministers to put in place extra measures to meet a target before setting a new one.