To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases of proposed deportation extradition or other transfer of foreign nationals from the UK have been stopped by the UK court or her Department wholly or partially on (a) any legal ground, (b) human rights grounds relying on Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), (c) human rights grounds relying on Article 8 of the ECHR and (d) human rights grounds relying on both Article 3 and Article 8 of the ECHR.

The Chief Executive of the UK Border Agency indicated in her letter to the Home Affairs Select Committee on 19 October 2009 that management information in this area is particularly complex.

In order to provide a breakdown of specific reasons for deportation not to be pursued against a foreign national prisoner either at initial decision stage or following a successful appeal can only be obtained by investigating individual case-files which would incur a disproportionate cost.