Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many foreign-national offenders, having completed at least 12 months of a custodial sentence, have been removed from the United Kingdom, in each quarterly period since January 2020.

As has been the case for many years, the information requested is not available from published statistics.

The Home Office does publish quarterly statistics on the returns of foreign national offenders (FNOs) by nationality and year. These returns are published in the Returns Detailed Datasets, Year Ending June 2024, which are available at: Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The published statistics refer to enforced returns which include deportations, as well as cases where a person has breached UK immigration laws, and those removed under other administrative and illegal entry powers that have declined to leave voluntarily.

The number of FNOs removed from the UK who have served a custodial sentence of at least 12 months is not separately available.

We are committed to delivering justice for victims and safer streets for our communities. Foreign nationals who commit crime should be in no doubt that the law will be enforced and, where appropriate, we will pursue their deportation, and they will be swiftly removed from the country.