Foreign National Offenders (Removal) Debate

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Department: Home Office

Foreign National Offenders (Removal)

Henry Smith Excerpts
Wednesday 22nd October 2014

(9 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Henry Smith Portrait Henry Smith (Crawley) (Con)
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Can the Home Secretary confirm that approximately 400 of the missing foreign criminals arrived in the country under the previous Labour Government?

Theresa May Portrait Mrs May
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It is certainly true that a number of cases still in the system predate this Government’s coming to power in 2010, but we continue to work on those cases, as we do on the most recent ones.