Offenders: Foreign Nationals
(asked on 19th March 2018) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national offenders there are in UK prisons.
This question was answered on 27th March 2018
As at 31 December 2017 (latest published figures) there were 9,012 foreign national prisoners held in prisons in England and Wales, with a further 328 held in the HMPPS operated Immigration Removal Centre.
Any foreign national who comes to our country and abuses our hospitality by breaking the law should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them. More than 40,000 foreign national offenders have been removed from the UK since 2010, and in the last financial year a record number of over 6,300 were removed.