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1421336

registered interest
date	09/02/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many inmates across the prison estate have been detained at the end of their sentence awaiting a Home Office decision on an authority to detain notification (IS91) in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	121891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to a fair and humane immigration policy that welcomes those here legally, but tackles abuse and protects the public.</p><p>We make every effort to ensure that a foreign national offender’s (FNO) removal by deportation coincides, as far as possible, with their release from prison on completion of sentence. Detention plays a crucial role in enabling the removal of FNOs and those who are here illegally.</p><p> </p><p>Published Home Office policy, <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1046288/Detention_General_instructions.pdf" target="_blank">Detention General instructions (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a>, is clear that immigration detention must be used sparingly and for the shortest period necessary. Where the Home Office intends to detain a time-served FNO under immigration powers at the end of their custodial sentence, detention notices are served in advance of this date, subject to certain exceptions. A timely risk assessment is also carried, out in line with <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/992285/detention-general-instructions-v1.0.pdf" target="_blank">published guidance</a>, which reviews the suitability of the FNOs transfer to the immigration removal estate.</p><p> </p><p>Foreign national offenders held in detention have the option to apply to an independent immigration judge for bail at any point. Once a person is in detention, regular reviews are undertaken to ensure that their detention remains lawful, appropriate and proportionate. We do not detain people indefinitely.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office publishes data on people in immigration detention in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. The number of people in detention on the last day of each quarter are published in table Det_D02 of the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/returns-and-detention-datasets" target="_blank">Detention detailed datasets</a>. The data include those detained under immigration powers in HM prisons from July 2017 and can be broken down by place of detention. The latest data relate to the number of people in detention at the end of September 2021.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 121892 121893 question first answered 21/02/2022 15:37:51 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1421337

registered interest
date	09/02/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much compensation has been paid out to detainees across the prison estate for having to wait for a Home Office decision on an authority to detain notification (IS91) once they have already served their sentence in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	121892
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to a fair and humane immigration policy that welcomes those here legally, but tackles abuse and protects the public.</p><p>We make every effort to ensure that a foreign national offender’s (FNO) removal by deportation coincides, as far as possible, with their release from prison on completion of sentence. Detention plays a crucial role in enabling the removal of FNOs and those who are here illegally.</p><p> </p><p>Published Home Office policy, <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1046288/Detention_General_instructions.pdf" target="_blank">Detention General instructions (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a>, is clear that immigration detention must be used sparingly and for the shortest period necessary. Where the Home Office intends to detain a time-served FNO under immigration powers at the end of their custodial sentence, detention notices are served in advance of this date, subject to certain exceptions. A timely risk assessment is also carried, out in line with <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/992285/detention-general-instructions-v1.0.pdf" target="_blank">published guidance</a>, which reviews the suitability of the FNOs transfer to the immigration removal estate.</p><p> </p><p>Foreign national offenders held in detention have the option to apply to an independent immigration judge for bail at any point. Once a person is in detention, regular reviews are undertaken to ensure that their detention remains lawful, appropriate and proportionate. We do not detain people indefinitely.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office publishes data on people in immigration detention in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. The number of people in detention on the last day of each quarter are published in table Det_D02 of the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/returns-and-detention-datasets" target="_blank">Detention detailed datasets</a>. The data include those detained under immigration powers in HM prisons from July 2017 and can be broken down by place of detention. The latest data relate to the number of people in detention at the end of September 2021.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 121891 121893 question first answered 21/02/2022 15:37:51 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1166726

registered interest
date	28/10/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals given sentences of imprisonment for public protection have been deported from the UK in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	6424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government is absolutely committed to removing Foreign National Offenders from the UK, and any foreign national who comes to our country and abuses our hospitality by breaking the law should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them.</p><p>Since 2010, we have removed almost 50,000 Foreign National Offenders from our prisons, immigration removal centres and the community, with more than 5,000 removed in 2018/19.</p><p>Providing the information requested would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p><p>The Home Office does publish quarterly statistics on the numbers of Foreign Nationals removed from the UK. This data can be found by accessing the following <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2019/list-of-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2019/list-of-tables</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 6425 question first answered 31/10/2019 16:16:48 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1166736

registered interest
date	28/10/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of foreign nationals serving sentences of imprisonment for public protection have been deported to countries that do not have an equivalent sentence in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	6425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government is absolutely committed to removing Foreign National Offenders from the UK, and any foreign national who comes to our country and abuses our hospitality by breaking the law should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them.</p><p>Since 2010, we have removed almost 50,000 Foreign National Offenders from our prisons, immigration removal centres and the community, with more than 5,000 removed in 2018/19.</p><p>Providing the information requested would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p><p>The Home Office does publish quarterly statistics on the numbers of Foreign Nationals removed from the UK. This data can be found by accessing the following <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2019/list-of-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2019/list-of-tables</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 6424 question first answered 31/10/2019 16:16:48 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

759408

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost is of detaining foreign prisoners in British prisons.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	9859
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>MoJ does not analyse cost by prisoner nationality at an individual prisoner level, as costs recorded on the central accounting systems do not allow identification of costs attributable to holding individual offenders.</p><p>However, HMPPS information is published on an annual basis on average costs per prisoner, costs per prison place and overall prison unit costs for each private and public sector prison in England and Wales.</p><p>This information is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-performance-statistics-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-performance-statistics-2015-to-2016</a></p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 14/09/2017 13:52:50 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

436297

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether victims of crime are informed when foreign prisoners are (a) deported and (b) expected to be released.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
uin	19162
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>A victim may contact the Home Office directly or make a request via their Victim Liaison Officer (VLO) for information on the progress of a foreign prisoner’s deportation. When a request is received the Home Office will respond to the victim or their VLO on whether deportation is being pursued or has been enforced.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 15/12/2015 17:24:44 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie

228340

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what offences the foreign nationals in prison in England and Wales were convicted on the most recent date for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	228242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>Foreign national offenders who have no right to remain in the UK should be removed at the earliest opportunity and the Government has toughened the system, including pursuing compulsory transfer agreements with European countries.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, 23,000 foreign offenders have been removed from the UK since 2010 and more than 600 under the 'deport first, appeal later' provisions, with many more being processed through the system. The grounds on which criminals can appeal against deportation have been cut.</p><p> </p><p>The table below details the offence types for the sentenced prison population in England and Wales, as of 31 December 2014. It also provides a breakdown to indicate whether the offender was a foreign national, a UK national, or nationality not recorded. As the table records only sentenced prisoners, it does not include remand prisoners, fine defaulters, civil prisoners or recalled prisoners.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Sentenced<sup>(1)</sup> prison population by offence type and nationality 31 December 2014</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>Foreign National</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>UK</strong><strong> National</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Not Recorded</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>All</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Violence against the person</strong></p></td><td><p>1,657</p></td><td><p>16,089</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>17,776</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Sexual offences</strong></p></td><td><p>1,035</p></td><td><p>9,933</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>10,991</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Robbery</strong></p></td><td><p>527</p></td><td><p>6,609</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>7,143</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Burglary</strong></p></td><td><p>400</p></td><td><p>7,197</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>7,606</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Theft and handling</strong></p></td><td><p>341</p></td><td><p>2,891</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>3,249</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Fraud and forgery</strong></p></td><td><p>289</p></td><td><p>1,039</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>1,339</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Drug offences</strong></p></td><td><p>1,192</p></td><td><p>8,588</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>9,807</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Motoring offences</strong></p></td><td><p>88</p></td><td><p>647</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>741</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Other offences</strong></p></td><td><p>819</p></td><td><p>5,699</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>6,552</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Offence not recorded</strong></p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>173</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>247</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>All</strong></p></td><td><p>6,373</p></td><td><p>58,865</p></td><td><p>213</p></td><td><p>65,451</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 23/03/2015 15:25:54 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

93426

registered interest
date	14/10/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what has been the total annual cost of imprisoning foreign national offenders in United Kingdom prisons in each of the last four calendar years.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL2092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) does not calculate separately the annual cost of imprisoning foreign nationals in England and Wales. NOMS does not analyse cost by prisoner nationality, as costs recorded on the NOMS central accounting system do not allow identification of costs attributable to holding individual prisoners.</p><p>All prison costs for Scotland and Northern Ireland are a devolved matter and the responsibility of the relevant Minister.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 28/10/2014 17:19:53 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont