Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many British citizens sentenced to probation in each (a) EU member state and (b) country outside the EU have been transferred back to the UK to serve their probation in each of the last five years.
There is no statutory basis for community sentences imposed on British citizens by a court in another country, whether in the EU or outside it, to be enforced by the UK authorities; we are therefore not aware of any British citizens who have received a community sentence from a court in another jurisdiction and been transferred to the UK to serve that sentence.
The Framework Decision on Prisoner Transfer allows British citizens to be transferred back to a UK prison to serve a custodial sentence imposed by a court in another EU jurisdiction, and to subsequently serve a British post-custodial licence in the UK.