Home Department written question – answered at on 14 September 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many notifications the United Kingdom Central Authority for the Exchange of Criminal Records gave to each EU member state regarding the conviction of one of its nationals in the UK in each year since 2007.
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The figures provided by the UK Central Authority for the Exchange of Criminal Records for notifications separated by country of receipt for 2009, 2010 and up to
Notifications out—notifications of EU nationals convicted in the UK (1) | |||||
Country | 2007 (2) | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 (3) |
Austria | — | — | 42 | 60 | 21 |
Belgium | — | — | 137 | 130 | 63 |
Bulgaria | — | — | 609 | 332 | 200 |
Cyprus | — | — | 221 | 185 | 99 |
Czech Republic | — | — | 894 | 846 | 527 |
Denmark | — | — | 77 | 66 | 40 |
Estonia | — | — | 202 | 206 | 127 |
Finland | — | — | 24 | 59 | 18 |
France | — | — | 714 | 1,089 | 499 |
Germany | — | — | 727 | 663 | 228 |
Greece | — | — | 135 | 110 | 55 |
Hungary | — | — | 439 | 369 | 253 |
Ireland | — | — | 4,874 | 4,212 | 1,388 |
Italy | — | — | 771 | 757 | 389 |
Latvia | — | — | 1,910 | 2,203 | 1,609 |
Lithuania | — | — | 4,728 | 4,744 | 3,451 |
Luxembourg | — | — | 4 | 4 | 0 |
Malta | — | — | 41 | 80 | 26 |
Netherlands | — | — | 402 | 537 | 258 |
Poland | — | — | 9,926 | 8,137 | 5,049 |
Portugal | — | — | 2,209 | 1,933 | 995 |
Romania | — | — | 3,795 | 4,497 | 3,281 |
Slovakia | — | — | 472 | 435 | 313 |
Slovenia | — | — | 24 | 26 | 13 |
Spain | — | — | 355 | 294 | 187 |
Sweden | — | — | 103 | 106 | 76 |
Total | 10,736 | 30,545 | 33,835 | 32,080 | 19,144 |
(1) The figures previously provided for 2009 and 2010 in response to parliamentary question 67358 on 5 September 2011, Official Report, column 246W, were for England and Wales only. (2) In 2007 the process by which criminal convictions were extracted from the police national computer was changed, so that all convictions of EU nationals were sent to the member state of nationality. Previously only the first conviction had been sent. (3) As of 2 August 2011. Note: The figures for 2008-11 reflect the number of convictions and not the number of offenders. |
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