Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2016 to Question 31329, on deportation: EU nationals, how many EEA foreign national offenders awaiting deportation have been waiting (a) less than one month, (b) one to three months, (c) three to six months, (d) six to nine months, (e) nine to 12 months, (f) one to two years and (g) more than two years.

Removals have been increasing year on year since 2010. In 2015, we removed 5,602 FNOs and over 29,000 foreign national offenders have been removed since 2010.

Our records indicate that as of December 2015, there were 4,217 EEA foreign national offenders awaiting deportation.

Of which:

2,748 are still serving a custodial sentence

A total of 302 are time served detained in immigration removal centres (IRC) and prisons. (242 in IRCs and 60 in prison)

1,167 are living in the community.

Of the above, for those detained and living in the community (1,469), the time since the end of their custodial sentence is as follows:

Less than one month 50

One to three months 84

Three to six months 58

Six to nine months 60

Nine to 12 months 49

One to two years 132

More than two years 80

No UK conviction or sentence end date not recorded 956

Total 1,469

(1) The figures quoted have been derived from management information from the Home Office databases and are therefore provisional and subject to change. This information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols.

(2) FNOs living in the community include those released by an Immigration Judge, those released by the Secretary of State and those with oversees convictions who may not have received a custodial sentence in the UK.

(3) The data provided is up to December 2015. This is not routinely published data. General protocol is that the figures should not breach the National Statistics, so we are not able to disclose figures that are for a later period than those that we have published. Published figures are available up to 31 December 2015.