Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals held in the prison estate have previously been deported.

The information requested is not available from published statistics.

Our Nationality and Borders Act became law in April 2022. A factsheet can be viewed here: Nationality and Borders Bill: factsheet - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

The same act also amended legislation which means a foreign offender who returns to the United Kingdom in breach of a deportation order can be sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. Anyone who enters the UK without leave, or without a visa, also faces a maximum penalty of four years.