Prisoners: EU Nationals
(asked on 5th October 2015) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many citizens of other European Union member states are currently serving prison sentences within the United Kingdom, and of which member states they are citizens.
The table below provides a breakdown of the number of nationals of other EU member states who were serving prison sentences in prisons in England and Wales on 30 June 2015, the date of the latest available data:
Number of sentenced EU Nationals held in prisons in England and Wales as at 30 June 2015 | ||
Austria | 4 | |
Belgium | 18 | |
Bulgaria | 32 | |
Croatia | 5 | |
Cyprus | 12 | |
Czech Republic | 68 | |
Denmark | 8 | |
Estonia | 14 | |
Finland | 0 | |
France | 48 | |
Germany | 47 | |
Greece | 19 | |
Hungary | 36 | |
Ireland | 650 | |
Italy | 66 | |
Latvia | 93 | |
Lithuania | 315 | |
Luxembourg | 0 | |
Malta | 4 | |
Netherlands | 90 | |
Poland | 608 | |
Portugal | 146 | |
Romania | 359 | |
Slovakia | 57 | |
Slovenia | 3 | |
Spain | 45 | |
Sweden | 21 | |
Total | 2,768 | |
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The figures in these tables have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing. | ||
The Ministry of Justice is unable to provide data on the number of foreign nationals held in prisons in Scotland or Northern Ireland, as these are the responsibility of the relevant devolved administrations.