Prisoners' Release

(asked on 9th July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners who were liable for deportation (a) applied for and (b) were refused a resettlement licence in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Andrew Selous Portrait
Andrew Selous
Second Church Estates Commissioner
This question was answered on 24th September 2014

All foreign national offenders given custodial sentences are referred to the Home Office to consider deportation at the earliest possible opportunity.

Our policy seeks to ensure that those who will be removed from the UK are not released temporarily. On 13 August 2014 we amended the Prison Rules so that prisoners who have a Deportation Order served against them and have exhausted their rights of appeal from within the UK can no longer be moved to open conditions and will not be eligible for release on temporary licence (ROTL).

The immigration status of the foreign nationals granted temporary release and whether they were liable to be deported is not recorded centrally. Data on temporary release applications and the outcomes of such applications is not collected centrally and could not be provided except at disproportionate cost.

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