Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
(asked on 9th December 2015) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many offenders who are foreign nationals are currently serving a sentence for murder or manslaughter in prisons in England and Wales.
This question was answered on 22nd December 2015
Foreign criminals who break our laws should be properly punished but not at the expense of the British taxpayer.
In the last year we have returned more than 5,000 foreign prisoners to their home country. Prisoner transfer agreements are just one way the Government can remove these criminals from the United Kingdom.
As at 30 September 2015, there were 732 foreign nationals serving a sentence for murder or manslaughter in prisons in England and Wales.