Prisoners: Repatriation
(asked on 3rd July 2014) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign nationals of each nationality were deported from jails in London to complete their sentences in their home countries in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014 to date.
All prisoners who are transferred to a prison in their country in order to serve their remaining sentence leave from Wandsworth Prison (in London) if they are male and Holloway Prison (in London) if they are female. They may, however, only be transferred there shortly before transfer.
The numbers of transfers are provided in the table below.
Year | Number of prisoner transfers (out of England and Wales) |
2010 | 47 |
2011 | 43 |
2012 | 41 |
2013 | 43 |
2014 – to date | 16 * (total at 3 July 2014) |
The Prisoner Transfer process is just one mechanism for removing Foreign National Offenders. The number of FNOs deported under the Early Removal Scheme (ERS) has increased under this Government. In 2013, we removed nearly 2,000 FNOs under ERS and under the Tariff Expired Removal Scheme (TERS), which we introduced in May 2012, we have removed over 240 FNOs to date.
Whereas this Government has begun to reduce the foreign national population in prison since 2010, between 1997 and 2010, the number of foreign nationals in our prisons more than doubled.