Offenders: Repatriation
(asked on 5th September 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign prisoners have been (a) deported and (b) transferred to foreign prisons in 2017.
This question was answered on 11th September 2017
The Government is absolutely committed to removing Foreign National Offenders from the United Kingdom. 6,343 FNOs were removed in 2016/17 – a record number. Of these, 110 prisoners were transferred to prisons in their own countries in the same period.