Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of foreign national offenders have been released into the community in (a) Scotland, (b) Northern Ireland, and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years.

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

The Home Office do however routinely publish quarterly figures on the number of foreign national offenders that have been released into the community. Although these figures are not disaggregated by constituent part of the United Kingdom, they do provide the requested data on a national level. Figures for the latest quarter can be found by accessing the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-enforcement-data-february-2018