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<p> </p><p> </p><p>On 31 March 2014 there were 588 prisoners in England and Wales
who declared they were Romanian on reception to prison.</p><p>All foreign national
offenders sentenced to custody are referred to the Home Office for them to consider
deportation at the earliest possible opportunity.</p><p>Romania has implemented the
EU Prisoner Transfer Arrangement and relevant cases have been referred to the Home
Office to obtain deportation orders.</p><p>The Prisoner Transfer process is just one
mechanism for removing Foreign National Offenders. The number of FNOs deported under
the Early Removal Scheme (ERS) has increased under this Government. In 2013, we removed
nearly 2,000 FNOs under ERS and under the Tariff Expired Removal Scheme (TERS), which
we introduced in May 2012, we have removed over 240 FNOs to date.</p><p>Whereas this
Government has begun to reduce the foreign national population in prison since 2010,
between 1997 and 2010, the number of foreign nationals in our prisons more than doubled.</p>
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