Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what arrangements the Government has in place to enable British citizens sentenced to probation in (a) another EU member state and (b) another country outside the EU to be transferred back to the UK to serve their probation in the UK.
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.