Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals convicted of sex offences in the UK are awaiting deportation in (a) custody and (b) the community; and how many foreign nationals convicted of sex offences in the UK were deported in each of the last ten years.

Providing the information requested would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.

The Home Office routinely publish the total number of FNOs living in the community. This information can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017

The Home Office routinely publish the total number of FNOs who have been removed from the UK. This information can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017-data-tables

The Ministry of Justice routinely publish the total number of FNOs serving custodial sentences. This information can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2017