Offenders: Deportation

(asked on 1st December 2016) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress the Government has made in returning foreign nationals to their own countries after they have completed a prison term in the UK.


Answered by
Phillip Lee Portrait
Phillip Lee
This question was answered on 3rd February 2017

Those who break our laws should be removed from the country at the earliest opportunity. In 2015/16, we removed 5,810 Foreign National Offenders (FNOs) from prisons, immigration removal centres and the community, the highest number ever. Over 33,000 FNOs have been removed since 2010.

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