Prisoners: Repatriation

(asked on 27th January 2017) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of offenders from Vietnam have been transferred to prisons in Vietnam from the UK in each year of the last five years.


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

The United Kingdom and Vietnam signed a prisoner transfer agreement on 11 September 2008. The agreement provides for the transfer of prisoners on a voluntary basis. Since its entry into force, 3 prisoners have been transferred to Vietnam from England and Wales. The transfers took place in 2013. In formation on the prison population can be found at www.gov.uk.

We are committed to increasing the number of Foreign National Offenders removed from our prisons, whether they are removed through Prisoner transfer Agreements or the Early Removal Scheme. In 2015/16 we removed the highest number of offenders since records began with a total of 5,810 offenders removed from prisons, immigration removal centres and the community.

The transfer of prisoners from Scotland and from Northern Ireland is a devolved matter and is the responsibility of the relevant devolved authority.

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