Offences against Children

(asked on 3rd January 2025) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will deport (a) foreign nationals prosecuted for membership of a rape gang, (b) UK dual nationals prosecuted for membership of a rape gang scandal and (c) foreign national family members of those prosecuted with complicit knowledge.


Answered by
Angela Eagle Portrait
Angela Eagle
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 14th January 2025

Any foreign national convicted of a crime in the UK and given a prison sentence is considered for deportation at the earliest opportunity.

Section 3(5)(b) of the Immigration Act 1971 also provides for the deportation of a family member of a person being deported. This includes the spouse, civil partner or children under the age of 18.

British citizens who have dual nationality have a right of abode in the United Kingdom and are not liable to deportation.

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