Justice written question – answered at on 26 March 2014.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many foreign national prisoners of each (a) ethnicity, (b) country of origin and (c) gender are held in the UK.
The information requested is as follows:
Table 1 provides information on the ethnicity of Foreign National Offenders (FNOs) held in custody:
Table 1: Foreign national prison population by ethnicity, 31 December 2013, England and Wales | |
All | |
White | 4,326 |
Mixed | 367 |
Asian or Asian British | 1,997 |
Black or Black British | 3,005 |
Chinese or Other ethnic group | 725 |
Not stated | 25 |
Unrecorded | 250 |
All | 10,695 |
Table 2 provides information on gender of FNOs held in custody:
Table 2: Foreign national prison population by gender, 31 December 2013, England and Wales | |
All | |
Male | 10,130 |
Female | 565 |
All | 10,695 |
We do not hold data on the country of origin of FNOs held in custody. However we do publish data in relation to self-declared nationality, which can be found here:
(table 1.6)
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
All FNOs sentenced to custody are referred to the Home Office for them to consider deportation at the earliest possible opportunity.
The number of FNOs deported under the Early Removal Scheme (ERS) has increased under this Government. In 2013, we removed nearly 2,000 FNOs under ERS and under the Tariff Expired Removal Scheme (TERS), which we introduced in May 2012, we have removed 235 FNOs to date.
Whereas this Government have begun to reduce the foreign national population in prison since 2010, between 1997 and 2010, the number of foreign nationals in our prisons more than doubled.
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