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<p>More than 10,000 foreign national offenders have been returned to their home countries
in the last three years.</p><p>The Prisoner Transfer Agreement with Albania. This
agreement came into force in May 2022. We are working closely with our counterparts
in Albania to begin transferring prisoners – with or without the offender’s consent
– as soon as possible, as outlined in our new bilateral prisoner transfer agreement.</p><p>Justice
is a devolved matter in both Scotland and Northern Ireland. The Scottish Prison Service
(SPS), an agency of the Scottish Government, operates Scottish prisons. Similarly,
the Northern Ireland Prison Service is responsible for the management of prisons in
Northern Ireland. The MoJ therefore does not hold this information in relation to
prisoners in Scottish or Northern Irish prisons.</p>
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