Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether it is her Department's policy to maintain current transfer arrangements for foreign national offenders with EU member states after the UK leaves the EU.

This government is absolutely committed to removing Foreign National Offenders (FNO) to their own countries and since 2010 we have removed over 32,000 FNO’s. There are a number of instruments that we use to remove FNOs, one of which includes the EU Prisoner Transfer Framework Decision. We are working closely across government to consider options for our future arrangements with the EU in regard to criminal justice matters. As the Prime Minister has said, it would not be appropriate to provide a running commentary on the detail of negotiations.