No, I'm afraid I don't know. I don't think it is widely used in Europe, and if it were, I think I would know about it. The networks of people I know who use electronic monitoring don't talk much about immigration uses and uses with asylum seekers. It's much more extensive in the United States of America, but I freely admit that I don't know very much detail about its use in the United States of America. I know that it is widely used. I know that it's seen as a significant part of the market by the private companies and that immigration is a market they have expanded into--they see it as a market--from the criminal justice market they have been involved in for 20 to 30 years, but I don't know enough about it. You would need to find another witness to help you with that one.
On February 9th, 2012. See this statement in context.