Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of foreign nationals in prisons who are (a) illegal immigrants and (b) asylum seekers since 2019, broken down by (i) year, (ii) nationality and (iii) offence committed.

The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and could only be obtained for the purpose of answering this question through a manual search of case files, something that could only be done at disproportionate cost.

Work is underway to improve the quality of information held by the department on foreign national offenders (FNOs). Further information on this work can be found at: Statistics on foreign national offenders and the immigration system - GOV.UK.