Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of deporting foreign nationals resident in the UK that engage in activities contrary to British values.

It is already government policy to pursue deportation where a foreign national:

• is convicted of an offence that has caused serious harm or if, the person has not yet been convicted of an offence, there is compelling circumstantial evidence that the person’s conduct or presence in the UK has or will cause serious harm;
• is a persistent offender;
• poses a threat to national security;
• is involved in gun crime or serious drug offending (regardless of the length of sentence received); or
• has participated in or facilitated a sham marriage.

In this Government’s first six months in office, we removed 2,580 foreign national offenders, a 23% increase on the same period twelve months prior.