Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of prisoners who were not born in the UK in each of the last three years.

Information is not held centrally on the country of birth of prisoners.

For the nationality split of prisoners please refer to the Offender Management Statistics series. In particular:

Table 1.6 for the most up to date quarterly statistics up to 30 September 2014:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/368442/prison-population-q3-2014.xls

Table 1.9 for the long run time series as at 30 June for 2002-2014:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/339036/prison-population-2014.xls