Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals given sentences of imprisonment for public protection have been deported in each of the last five years.

The Home Office publishes data on returns in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on returns of foreign national offenders (FNOs) are published in table Ret_D03 of the ‘Returns detailed datasets’.

Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to December 2022.

An FNO is someone who is not a British citizen and is, or was, convicted in the UK of any criminal offence, or convicted abroad for a serious criminal offence. We do not publish information about whether FNOs have served prison time or not.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.