Offenders: Foreign Nationals

(asked on 14th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of foreign national offenders were categorised as non-criminal prisoners in each of the last years.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 19th December 2023

Information on the number of Foreign National prisoners by custody type (including ‘non-criminal) is routinely published in the department’s Offender Management Statistics Quarterly release. This data can be found in Table A1.11 at the following link:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64c045751e10bf000e17ce89/Population_30June2023_Annual.ods.

The proportion of ‘non-criminals’ as a percentage of the total Foreign National prison population can be calculated from the figures in the linked table.

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