Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
(asked on 1st November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people currently in prison are (1) citizens of other EU member states, and (2) non-EU citizens.
This question was answered on 13th November 2017
The Government is committed to removing Foreign National Offenders from the United Kingdom, with a record number of over 6,300 removed from prisons, immigration removal centres (IRCs) and the community in 2016/17.
As at 30 September 2017, there were 4,125 (non-British) EU nationals in the prison population in England & Wales (including the HMPPS run IRCs); and a further 5,821 non-EU Foreign Nationals.