Prisoners: Caribbean

(asked on 8th May 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Caribbean-born foreign nationals aged (a) 46 or above, (b) 50 or above, (c) 60 or above and (d) 70 or above have served or are currently serving custodial sentences; how many of those sentences relate to (i) illegal working, (ii) working without papers proving their right to work, and (iii) false papers or fraudulent papers; how many of those people have been or are currently being held in immigration removal centres prior to removal; and how many have been deported to Caribbean countries in each year since 2013.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 22nd May 2018

The MoJ routinely publish data of the nationalities of time serving individuals:https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/702300/population-31-march-2018.ods

The Home Office routinely publish data which gives a breakdown by nationality of detained foreign nationals: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017-data-tables

The Home Office routinely publishes migration statistics data which gives a breakdown by nationality of all removals: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/683361/returns2-oct-dec-2017-tables.ods

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

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