Offenders: Deportation

(asked on 2nd September 2026) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made in deporting foreign national offenders to (1) Albania, (2) Romania, (3) Poland, (4) Lithuania and (5) Jamaica, since July 2024.


Answered by
Lord Hanson of Flint Portrait
Lord Hanson of Flint
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 17th September 2026

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.

Since this Government came to power over 11,700 foreign national offenders (FNOs) have been returned, an increase of 41%, and we will continue to do everything we can to remove these vile criminals from our streets.

The number of FNOs returned by nationality (of which ā€˜deportation’ is a legal subset) is published by the Home Office in the Immigration Systems Statistics quarterly release.

Please see table below of the top 10 FNO returns by nationality:

Foreign national offender returns, nationality

year ending June 2025 [p]

year ending June 2026 [p]

Change in the latest year

Percentage change in the latest year (%)

Albania

1,577

1,463

-114

-7%

Romania

1,013

1,041

+28

+3%

Poland

453

530

+77

+17%

Lithuania

277

333

+56

+20%

Bulgaria

144

208

+64

+44%

Portugal

93

180

+87

+94%

Brazil

68

142

+74

+109%

India

80

129

+49

+61%

Vietnam

92

115

+23

+25%

Netherlands

75

108

+33

+44%

Other

1,461

1,713

+252

+17%

Total

5,333

5,962

+629

+12%

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