Home Department written question – answered at on 29 June 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign prisoners have been released from prison in Suffolk in the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in which prison each foreign prisoner released but not deported was last held.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign prisoners are being held in each prison in Greater London.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign nationals sought for deportation by his Department were released from (a) Cardiff, (b) Bridgend and (c) Swansea prisons during the period 2004 to 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign nationals are held in prisons in West Sussex; and how many of these are liable for deportation on release.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the 1,019 foreign prisoners released without consideration for deportation are now under police control; and if he will make a statement.
My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has updated the House on these matters today in a written ministerial statement, and the director general of the immigration and nationality directorate (IND) has written to the Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee today on the number of cases where foreign national prisoners were released without proper deportation consideration. A copy of the letter has been placed in both Libraries.
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