Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) UK nationals and (b) non-UK nationals have been arrested in each year since 2008.

The Home Office collects and publishes arrests in England and Wales as part of the annual ‘Police Powers and ‘Procedures’ statistical bulletin, available here: Police powers and procedures England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

However, data is not collected on the nationality of the person arrested.

The Ministry of Justice collect and publish data on the nationality of the prison population, including the number of non-UK nationals in prison, as a part of their quarterly Offender Management statistics, available here: Offender management statistics quarterly - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)