Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many individuals who were serving custodial sentences and were recommended for deportation on release, have been deported in each of the last five years.

The Home Office routinely publishes figures on the total number of foreign national offenders that have been removed. The figures can be found at ‘Returns data tables – immigration statistics April to June 2017 volume 5 – rt_06_q’ when accessing the following link:

www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2017-data-tables

Figures in include enforced removals and voluntary returns.A foreign national offender (FNO) is someone who:(a) is not a British citizen; and (b) is/was convicted in the UK or abroad of any criminal offence.

Following the introduction of Association of Chief Police Officers Criminal Records Office (ACRO) cases, the FNO returns figure has included cases where foreign nationals who had a criminal conviction in another country, were picked up by police in the UK, and subsequently returned from the UK. In addition, these people could also have a UK conviction. This case type is now sufficiently well established to warrant separate identification in the statistical series. These figures are a count of an administrative process and, as such, are provisional and will be revised in line with the existing series. Those with an overseas criminal record may also have a UK criminal record.