EU Nationals: Convictions

Home Department written question – answered at on 14 September 2011.

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Photo of Dominic Raab Dominic Raab Conservative, Esher and Walton

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.

Photo of Lynne Featherstone Lynne Featherstone The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department

holding answer 9 September 2011

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 2 August 2011 are shown in the table. Statistical information for 2007 and 2008 was not split by nationality. Total figures have been provided 2007 and 2008.

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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