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Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Ministry of Justice

Mar. 21 2024

Source Page: Foreign national offenders on licence, PSS and IS91 policy framework
Document: Foreign national offenders on licence, PSS and IS91 policy framework (PDF)

Found: Foreign national offenders on licence, PSS and IS91 policy framework


Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
HM Prison and Probation Service

Mar. 21 2024

Source Page: Foreign national offenders on licence, PSS and IS91 policy framework
Document: Foreign national offenders on licence, PSS and IS91 policy framework (PDF)

Found: Foreign national offenders on licence, PSS and IS91 policy framework


Written Question
Offenders: Deportation
Thursday 7th September 2023

Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2023 to Question 193669 on Offenders: Deportation, what information her Department holds on the number of applications for the Facilitated Return Scheme (a) that were considered and (b) for which a decision was taken by her Department within 20 days of submission of that application in each of the last five years.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

Information on the number of applications for the Facilitated Return Scheme that are (a) considered and (b) decided within 20 days is not available from published statistics.


Written Question
Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
Wednesday 17th April 2024

Asked by: Tim Loughton (Conservative - East Worthing and Shoreham)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a breakdown of offences committed by foreign nationals held in the prison estate.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

The requested information can be found in the attached spreadsheet.

The removal of Foreign National Offenders (FNOs) is a Government priority and my department continues to work closely with the Home Office to maximise the number of deportations.

Published figures show that FNO returns have increased following the pandemic, in the latest 12-month period (ending December 2023) by 27% when compared to the previous 12-month period. Between January 2019 and December 2023 17,795 FNOs have been removed.

The proportion of FNOs held in custody is 12% of the total prison population and has remained stable in recent years while the overall prison population has grown.

On 11 March, the Government set out a plan to increase the number of FNOs removed through:

  • The recruitment of 400 additional caseworkers and streamlining the end-to-end removal process;
  • Extending foreign national conditional cautions to FNOs with limited leave to remain; and
  • Amending deportation policy to enable FNOs given suspended sentences of 6 months or more to be considered for deportation.

These actions build on our expansion of the Early Removal Scheme to allow for removal of FNOs up to 18 months before the end of the custodial element of their sentence, and expediting prisoner transfers with priority countries such as Albania and seeking to conclude new transfer agreements with partner countries.


Scheduled Event - 7 Feb 2024, 4:30 p.m. - Add to calendar
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Commons - Westminster Hall debate - Westminster Hall
Deportation of foreign national offenders
MP: Rachel Maclean
Commons Chamber
Prisons - Tue 24 Oct 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) I beg to move,That the draft Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Removal of Prisoners for Deportation) Order - Speech Link
2: Louie French (Con - Old Bexley and Sidcup) Friend share my concern that Opposition Members have previously tried to block the deportation of dangerous - Speech Link
3: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) I think the Minister said that offenders sentenced to over a year would be considered for deportation - Speech Link
4: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) In December 2020, when I was Home Secretary, 70 Opposition Members wrote to me to stop a deportation - Speech Link
5: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) recently, year-on-year.The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Removal of Prisoners for Deportation) Order 2023 - Speech Link


Non-Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Immigration Enforcement

May. 23 2024

Source Page: Immigration Enforcement data: Q1 2024
Document: Immigration Enforcement data: Q1 2024 (webpage)

Found: Details This document contains data on: foreign national offenders (FNOs) released from prison or


Lords Chamber
Asylum Seekers: Convictions - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) My Lords, any foreign national convicted of a crime and given a prison sentence is considered for deportation - Speech Link
2: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) In that cohort, foreign national offenders make up the majority of enforced returns, at 62%. - Speech Link


Written Question
Community Orders
Tuesday 23rd April 2024

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have not completed their first session of community payback.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

Year

Average days from sentence to start of Community Payback

Number of offenders who did not complete their first session of Community Payback

Total caseload

2021

87

8,830

44,108

2022

63

7,822

47,421

2023

37

6,604

48,058

The dataset includes all offenders starting an order with a community payback requirement between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2023. The start of the community payback requirement has been defined as either the first attended session of group work, or an individual placement, or the completion of Employment, Training and Education work.

There are a variety of reason why a person hasn't completed their first community payback session. These include receiving a custodial sentence or remanded into custody, recall to prison, a warrant for their arrest, deportation, suitability of sentence and non -compliance. For issues of suitability or non-compliance requirements are returned to court for appropriate action to be taken.

People whose first community payback session took place over a year from their order start date have been excluded from the average days calculation as additional court work would need to be completed to ensure that the first session was worked within a lawful period.

People who have not completed a first work session have also been excluded from the average day calculation, along with those where a first work session has been recorded after the community payback requirement was terminated.

The 2023 figure is subject to change as offenders sentenced in late 2023 will still have time to complete their first community payback session.

Centrally collected data are only available from 2021.

Between 2021 and 2023, a total of 23,256 offenders did not complete their first session of community payback.

This figure is subject to change as offenders sentenced in late 2023 will still have time to complete their first community payback session.

Data as at 15 April 2024. Data are sourced from nDelius and while these data have been assured as much as practical, as with any large administrative dataset, the data should not be assumed to be accurate to the last value presented.


Written Question
Community Orders
Tuesday 23rd April 2024

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the average time from sentence to start of community payback in each year since 2015.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

Year

Average days from sentence to start of Community Payback

Number of offenders who did not complete their first session of Community Payback

Total caseload

2021

87

8,830

44,108

2022

63

7,822

47,421

2023

37

6,604

48,058

The dataset includes all offenders starting an order with a community payback requirement between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2023. The start of the community payback requirement has been defined as either the first attended session of group work, or an individual placement, or the completion of Employment, Training and Education work.

There are a variety of reason why a person hasn't completed their first community payback session. These include receiving a custodial sentence or remanded into custody, recall to prison, a warrant for their arrest, deportation, suitability of sentence and non -compliance. For issues of suitability or non-compliance requirements are returned to court for appropriate action to be taken.

People whose first community payback session took place over a year from their order start date have been excluded from the average days calculation as additional court work would need to be completed to ensure that the first session was worked within a lawful period.

People who have not completed a first work session have also been excluded from the average day calculation, along with those where a first work session has been recorded after the community payback requirement was terminated.

The 2023 figure is subject to change as offenders sentenced in late 2023 will still have time to complete their first community payback session.

Centrally collected data are only available from 2021.

Between 2021 and 2023, a total of 23,256 offenders did not complete their first session of community payback.

This figure is subject to change as offenders sentenced in late 2023 will still have time to complete their first community payback session.

Data as at 15 April 2024. Data are sourced from nDelius and while these data have been assured as much as practical, as with any large administrative dataset, the data should not be assumed to be accurate to the last value presented.