Offenders: EU Nationals
(asked on 18th April 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many non-UK EU nationals received a prison sentence of (a) less than 12 months, (b) between 12 months and four years and (c) over four years in each of the last five years.
Any foreign national who comes to our country and abuses our hospitality by breaking the law should be in no doubt of our determination to punish and deport them. More than 47,000 Foreign National Offenders have been removed from the UK since 2010, and in the financial year 2017/18 almost 6,000 were removed from prisons, immigration removal centres, and the community.
The table below shows the prison sentences for non-UK EU nationals, for the period 2014/18.
Sentenced prison admissions of non-UK EU nationals, by sentence length band for 2014 to 2018 | |||||
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
Total | 5,779 | 5,246 | 4,912 | 4,163 | 3,946 |
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Determinate sentences | |||||
Less than 12 months | 3,467 | 3,362 | 2,975 | 2,404 | 2,245 |
12 months to less than 4 years | 1,337 | 1,292 | 1,296 | 1,164 | 1,130 |
4 years or more | 502 | 487 | 532 | 495 | 469 |
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Indeterminate sentences | 27 | 24 | 30 | 18 | 35 |
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Other / Not Recorded | 446 | 81 | 79 | 82 | 67 |
Data sources and quality The figures in these tables have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing. The data for 2015 onwards has been taken from a new data source; and this change has significantly reduced the number of 'other / not recorded' sentenced admissions. | |||||