Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national offenders of each offence type there are in the male prison estate.

The removal of Foreign National Offenders is a Government priority. We removed 16,676 foreign national offenders between January 2019 and September 2023. Published figures show that FNO returns have increased in the latest 12-month period (ending September 2023) by 19% when compared to previous 12-month period (3,577 compared to 3,011).

We have recently announced measures to further increase removals including the extension of the Early Removal Scheme window to 18 months; working closely with Home Office to facilitate timely removals and using diplomatic pressure to conclude bilateral Prison Transfer Agreements with specific countries.

The requested information can be found in the attached spreadsheet.

The prison population data published in the most recent Offender Management Statistics Quarterly publication are based on the prison population ‘as at 31 December 2023’. Any request for data ahead of this relates to data intended for future publication. In this case, the requested data (‘as at 5 February 2024’) relates to data intended for publication as part of the next Offender Management Statistics Quarterly release (scheduled for publication on 25 April 2024), and so is not available at this time.