Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national prisoners have been returned to each country where the UK has invested in prisons in each of the last 10 years.

It has been a long standing government policy that we do not publish detailed information on the number of Foreign National Offenders returned to specific countries as it may have a detrimental effect on the Home Office's returns agreements with foreign governments

The UK supports projects that strengthen the criminal justice capacity of a number of countries in the context of the government's development and security work. This work can help to build good relationships that support the return of Foreign National Offenders.

MoJ have developed projects that support prison reform in the context of furthering the potential for compulsory Prisoner Transfer Arrangements. This work has contributed to the successful signing of PTAs with Nigeria and Albania. Where such work provides value to the UK taxpayer we will explore similar approaches in other priority countries.

We saw the first prisoner transfer back to Albania this week (8^th July 2014) and expect to see transfers back to Nigeria by the end of the year.