Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of arrests of (a) foreign and (b) British nationals resulted in a prosecution in the last year for which information is available.

The Home Office does not hold centrally information on the nationality of individuals arrested. The Home Office collects and publishes data on the number of arrests broken down by offence group, gender, age group and ethnicity. These data are published in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins, where data for the year ending March 2016 can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2016

The Home Office does not hold centrally information on the number of arrests that led to a prosecution. Data on prosecutions are the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice.

The next release of ‘Police Powers’ statistics is due to be published in October, for the year ending March 2017.