Home Department written question – answered at on 21 July 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign prisoners released from a mandatory life sentence in (a) 2007 and (b) 2008 were deported or removed.
holding answer
The information requested is not readily available and could be obtained only by examination of individual files at disproportionate cost.
The UK Border Agency continues to make considerable progress in delivering an effective deportation system. In 2008 we deported or removed nearly 5,400 foreign criminals, including 50 people found guilty of murder, attempted murder or causing death, around 260 sex offenders and 1,600 drug offenders.
The Chief Executive at the UK Border Agency has regularly written to the Home Affairs Select Committee in order to provide them with the most robust and accurate information available relating to foreign national prisoners. Copies of these letters are available in the Library of the House.
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