Prisoners: British Nationals Abroad
(asked on 5th October 2015) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their current estimate of (1) how many British citizens are serving prison sentences in other European Union member states, and (2) the distribution of those prisoners across member states.
We collect global detainee statistics twice a year. On 2 March 2015 we were aware of 807 British nationals detained (either pre- or post- sentencing) across EU member states. The distribution of British national detainees across Europe was:
Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania and Slovakia | fewer than 5 each |
Belgium | 11 |
Bulgaria | 10 |
Cyprus | 7 |
Finland | 5 |
France | 104 |
Germany | 83 |
Greece | 12 |
Ireland | 222 |
Italy | 27 |
Malta | 11 |
The Netherlands | 16 |
Portugal | 31 |
Spain | 247 |
Sweden | 5 |